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Albert Roscoe Jaqua

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Albert Roscoe Jaqua

Birth
Reinbeck, Grundy County, Iowa, USA
Death
16 Jul 1957 (aged 63)
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Burial
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Monday, June 17, 1957, Section: Part 3, Page 11
Insurance School Head, A. R. Jaqua, 63, Dies

A. R. Jaqua, 63, of 6020 Swiss, founder and director of the Institute of Insurance Marketing at Southern Methodist University, died Sunday in a Dallas hospital after suffering a heart attack.

Jaqua founded the insurance marketing school at SMU in November of 1946. He was founder and director of the first such school at Purdue University in November of 1945 in Lafayette, Ind.

The SMU educator, listed in the 1957 edition of Who’s Who in America for his authorship of life insurance sales textbooks, was a native of Iowa and a graduate of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. He was the recipient of the outstanding achievement award of the Texas Leaders Round Table of the Texas Association of Life Underwriters and in 1935 had obtained the charter life underwriter designation.

He had been editor of the Diamond Life Bulletin Agents Service, which was the largest selling correspondence life insurance training course.

He was a member of the First Unitarian Church. He was also a veteran of World War I, having served in France with the U.S. Air Corps.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mrs. S. J. Whitman, Tulsa, Okla.; a son, A. Richard Jaqua of Lancaster, Calif.; three brothers, Ernest J. Jaqua of Eugene, Ore., John Jaqua of Minneapolis, Minn., and Paul V. Jaqua of Ravenna, Ohio; three sisters, Mrs. Leona Tomlinson of Fargo, N.D., Mrs. C. D. Graves of Alexandria, Minn., and Mrs. Olive Egan of Salem, Ore., and four grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Sparkman Brand Funeral Chapel, 2115 Ross Avenue, with Dr. Robert Raible, minister of the First Unitarian Church, officiating.

Pallbearers will be Douglas Macdonald, Fred Kermott, Charles E. Gaines, Charles Angell, Holland Shields, Henry Elbert, Sam Shackleford, Clarence Darling and John Patterson
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Monday, June 17, 1957, Section: Part 3, Page 11
Insurance School Head, A. R. Jaqua, 63, Dies

A. R. Jaqua, 63, of 6020 Swiss, founder and director of the Institute of Insurance Marketing at Southern Methodist University, died Sunday in a Dallas hospital after suffering a heart attack.

Jaqua founded the insurance marketing school at SMU in November of 1946. He was founder and director of the first such school at Purdue University in November of 1945 in Lafayette, Ind.

The SMU educator, listed in the 1957 edition of Who’s Who in America for his authorship of life insurance sales textbooks, was a native of Iowa and a graduate of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. He was the recipient of the outstanding achievement award of the Texas Leaders Round Table of the Texas Association of Life Underwriters and in 1935 had obtained the charter life underwriter designation.

He had been editor of the Diamond Life Bulletin Agents Service, which was the largest selling correspondence life insurance training course.

He was a member of the First Unitarian Church. He was also a veteran of World War I, having served in France with the U.S. Air Corps.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mrs. S. J. Whitman, Tulsa, Okla.; a son, A. Richard Jaqua of Lancaster, Calif.; three brothers, Ernest J. Jaqua of Eugene, Ore., John Jaqua of Minneapolis, Minn., and Paul V. Jaqua of Ravenna, Ohio; three sisters, Mrs. Leona Tomlinson of Fargo, N.D., Mrs. C. D. Graves of Alexandria, Minn., and Mrs. Olive Egan of Salem, Ore., and four grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Sparkman Brand Funeral Chapel, 2115 Ross Avenue, with Dr. Robert Raible, minister of the First Unitarian Church, officiating.

Pallbearers will be Douglas Macdonald, Fred Kermott, Charles E. Gaines, Charles Angell, Holland Shields, Henry Elbert, Sam Shackleford, Clarence Darling and John Patterson


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