He was born the only child of Waldo and Myrtle Sorensen on November 29, 1942. He was raised in Goshen where he grew up farming with his parents. He attended Payson High School where he met life-long friends, and enjoyed playing basketball, football, and running track. He was captain of the basketball team, an honor student, Senior Class Vice President, and claimed to have set a state record in track (his children would love it if anyone could validate this claim). He then went to Utah State University where he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering and also earned a professional engineer certificate. In 1966, Jake married Diana Trotter. They were married 28 years and together had three children, Bret, Stephenie, and Lizzy. He began his career working for General Electric in Phoenix, AZ and Pittsfield, MA. Wanting to raise his family in Utah, he moved to Orem, where he worked as a mechanical engineer at Geneva Steel for 28 years, with a brief stint working for Morton Thiokol. Jake was proud to have two patents registered to his name. In 1993, he retired to pursue his passion of raising cattle and growing alfalfa on the land where he was raised (sorry he used so much water). In 1996, he married Marla Snow and became a dear friend and biggest admirer of Marla’s children: Bill, Lindsay, Aubrey, and Chelsea. Jake was hard-working, passionate, curious, a friend to all, a story-teller, and could clearly out-talk anyone. We will miss him terribly.

Jake is preceded in death by his parents Waldo & Myrtle Sorensen and Stan & Margie Trotter. He is survived by Marla Snow; Bret & Valerie Sorensen (Jane, Anna, Heidi, Sam); Stephenie & Mitch Larsen (Gracie, Jake, Isabel, Caroline, William, Wyatt); Lizzy & Tim Gatten (Kate, Jackson, Sally, Brady, Johnny); William & Tara Jensen (Jerika, Addisyn, Jayden, Maddox); Lindsay & TJ Turner (Jensyn, Charley, Cooper); Aubrey & Jake Tombs (Gabe, Isabel, Max, Crew, Ava, Ainge); Chelsea & John Hunt (Mekai, Julian); and Gordon & Barbara Snow.