Glenn Jacobsen passed away Jan. 8 after a battle with glioblastoma brain cancer. He was 65.
Jacobsen was founder of Jacobsen Landscape Design & Construction in 1979.
He was a 2009 Lawn & Landscape Leadership Award winner.
According to his 2009 profile, Jacobsen started in the landscaping business at a young age, when he was in his mid-teens. His father was a part-time tree trimmer who also operated a small greenhouse.
Jacobsen earned his associate degree in ornamental horticulture when he started his own company. “When I was in high school, I started my own landscaping business working in neighbor’s yards," he said in 2009. "I went to college only a couple of years. For the past 32 years, I have run my own business.”
You can read his obit here.
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