Jacobs announce birth of son

Kevin and JoAnn Jacobs are the proud parents of a baby son, Samuel Matthias, born February 24, 2005, at 1:35 p.m. at Palmer Lutheran Health Center in West Union. He weighed 8 lbs., 14-1/2 ozs. and was 21” long.

He joins three brothers, Benjamin, 10, Joshua, 9, and Nicholas, 5. Grandparents are Arthur and Carol Jacobs of Freeport, IL, and Wayne and Alice Perry, Streater, IL.