Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA Dated Nov 10-11, 2006FORKS - Jacob Hanson's big bother: Marine Lance Cpl. Jason Hanson, 21, and three other Marines, were killed July 29 in Iraq.A suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a building near a checkpoint to their base.Jacob and Jason's parents, Carol and Stephen Hansson, didn't want Jacob to hear about his brother's death through the small town grapevine.Carol went to tell him.She pulled Jacob outside from his cooking job at the In Place in Forks, and quietly told him.Jacob broke down crying - then punched a trash can so hard that he broke his hand.Later, Jacob took to wearing his brother's dog tags."He didn't know what to do. He couldn't fix it," Carol said Thursday."I think he got lost in the sadness."Last Sunday, November 5, Jacob took his own life.He was 19 and had just started a job with a logging company, his mother said."I can't see my life beyong this day, beyond this next detail - I have to take my life in tiny pieces right now," his mother said."He was a kid, and he was my friend."Her husband, Stephen, said only that "we've been through this before" before passing the telephone to his wife.A memorial service for Jacob is scheduled for noon Saturday at the Performing Arts Center at Forks High School."It's too tiny of a town, and too big of hearts live here" to turn anyone away, Carol said.Jacob like skatboarding, but he also had a creative side and enjoyed drawing and whipping up gourmet meals.
**If you would like to send a note of condolence to the family please send them to me and I will make sure the family receives them.
CarolCarol L. McGuinn
PO Box 134
Beaver, WA 98305-0134
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