Juliana Mcqueen

On Easter of 1954, Juliana (Julie) Elizabeth Jacobsen who was a senior at Atchison High School was walking down Santa Fe Street in the small Missouri River town of Atchison, Kansas where she was born and raised. From what we can surmise, up pulled a loud hot rod car with a handsome farm boy from across the river in Missouri named Charles (Chuck) McQueen who was likely smoking a cigarette and cruising Atchison. He was there to visit his grandmother Stella McQueen. What he ended up with was his future wife and mother of his children.

Julie McQueen passed away on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at Westminster Thurber long care facility in Columbus, Ohio. She fought several debilitating illnesses but the worst was the inability to spend time with her family due to restrictions from the damned Covid. She and Susan had an appointment for a phone call that was not missed and she enjoyed visits with anyone. The staff at each nursing home always mentioned how they enjoyed her company.

She was born on September 10th, 1936 in Atchison, Kansas to Hans and Marie Jacobsen. Her parents immigrated from a war torn economically stricken Germany after World War I. They settled in Atchison, became proud Americans, worked hard and raised a family in the Lutheran Church way. Mom was a surprise baby. Her parents were born in the 1890's and were in their 40's when she made her appearance. She had 2 older sisters, Brigitta and Hattie and brother Carl who was soon off to World War II in the United States Navy.

Back to the Easter story. Soon Julie and Chuck became an item and despite some complications were married not once but twice on December 31, 1955 in Atchison, Kansas and then in St. Joseph, Missouri. You see the wedding took place in her church in Kansas but they had a marriage license from Missouri so to be official they had to hustle across the Missouri River and be legally married in Missouri. Red tape and government paperwork has not changed.

They lived and worked at the McQueen family farm which included Chucks parents, Leonard and Goldie McQueen and his brothers, Irvin and Larry McQueen and mom began the transition from a city girl to a farm girl.

She became pregnant the following Spring and on December 26, 1956 welcomed not one child, but twins Steven and Stephanie McQueen. They did not even know that they were having twins. I guess we go back to them doing things in twos. First marriage and now children.

On July 10th of 1959, Chuck and Julie welcomed daughter Susan to the family. The family was now complete and moved on to their next phase.

Apparently farm life, some personal things and Daddies penchant for adventure overtook them and they decided to sell their farm ground and equipment and move to Claremore, Oklahoma where he got into the life insurance business and was an entrepreneur owning a laundry mat. From there he progressed in the insurance business and the family moved several times. First to Tulsa, Oklahoma then Platte City, Missouri and Sedalia, Missouri and ending up in Galloway, Ohio in 1968. All this time, mom managed to keep a house, raise kids, manage moves and be a wife. She insisted that we only moved in the summer, so as to not interrupt our schooling.

Her family was comprised of:
Susan (Thomas) Sailer, grandchild Elizabeth (Jeremy) Agnew, great grandchild Stella Agnew; grandson Joshua (Meghan) Sailer, great grandchildren Margo and Loralei Sailer and grandson Alex Sailer.

Stephanie (George Scott) Cameron, granddaughter Carly (Aaron) Shonkwiler, great grandchildren Harper, Remy, Elle and Quinn Shonkwiler; granddaughter Katie (Joshua) Marcum, great grandchildren Cameron, Blake and Logan Marcum.
Steven and Christine McQueen, step grandson Aloysius III and step great grandson Aloysius Schoenberger IV; step granddaughter Alisha (Eric) Gilliam, step great grandchildren Alexis Schoenberger, Brandon Lehoe and Caiden Gilliam and step great great grandchildren Aria Schoenberger and Addison Preston.

If you are judged by the character, happiness and success of your children, Mom succeeded. She was very proud of her family and enjoyed spending time with us. We spent every important holiday together eating, playing cards and games and just generally having a good time. She also represented about every emotion that a human can have including love, devotion, anger, loyalty, wit, friendship, bull headedness, caring and a mean streak at times.

She developed a deep passion for golf and they spent a majority of their free time after the kids were grown at Oakhurst Country Club where they enjoyed a close circle of friends including Gary and Carol Meyer and Jack and Lois Copley. She and Chuck both had a hole in one at the famed Number 14 water hole at Oakhurst. She was also an accomplished bridge player who enjoyed her weekly bridge club at York Steak House. She was also a huge Kansas Jayhawk's basketball fan along with an Oklahoma Sooners football fan. We could never convert her to Buckeye Nation.

Thank you for being our mom and be assured that the strong family tree you came from and you and Daddy created will continue on creating a strong grove of family trees in the future.

A private graveside ceremony will take place at Sunset Cemetery where she will be laid next to her husband Chuck McQueen. In addition, a remembrance gathering will be scheduled for family and friends.