Jacoba "Cozy" Jones

Jacoba “Cozy” Jones is a character role-played by GraytArt.

* EMS
* Casual
* RHL manager

## General description

Jacoba "Cozy" Jones is Lieutenant for Los Santos Emergency Medical Services.

She is a 43-year old woman who came to Los Santos after the death of her beloved husband. Her given name is Dutch and her family nickname is “Coosje,” but this became “Cozy” with people outside the family because it is easier to say.

## Personality

Cozy is very friendly and will talk to almost anyone. She moved to Los Santos wanting to make a difference by helping people. She likes to feed people and is usually well prepared with the essentials of life, like repair kits and first aid kits. As a older resident she is often asked for advice; she can be a good listener and is sympathetic. She can be very direct and may talk too much. She has a tendency to bury herself in work and taking care of others, to the point where sometimes she feels like she is a supporting cast member in her own life story.

## Backstory

Jacoba was born to a Canadian father of Welsh ancestry and a Dutch-Canadian mother, whose family had emigrated from the Netherlands in the 1950’s wave of post-war migration to Canada. Her Dutch grandparents settled in Nova Scotia and were farmers, raising pigs and making their own sausages.
Jacoba’s parents met in school and became high school sweethearts. There was plenty of love, but also arguments, as her father drank too much. Their farm was on the water and Cozy developed an early love of boats, spending a lot of her spare time paddling canoes and driving speedboats. Her father died young after an accident on the farm. After her mother died of cancer (and possibly a broken heart), she moved to Toronto to experience big city life. There at age 26 she met and quickly married the love of her life, an abstract artist. She became a helper for his exhibitions, and supported him when times were tough. Unfortunately he became seriously ill with a rare lung condition and required a lung transplant, after which he contracted leukemia while immunocompromised. After his death in 2019 and a three-year period of mourning, she decided to move to Los Santos after having a realization: she would never be happy until she pursued a career in public service, and filled the role of caregiver she lost when her husband died.

### Employment

Cozy currently works at Simone Memorial Hospital (SMH) as an EMS Lieutenant.

Cozy researched working in the Police Department, Dispatch and EMS. She decided on EMS as being something that suited her caring nature and also would allow her to meet a variety of people and travel throughout the state. She started to do ridealongs with several EMS, notably Helen Bach, Joe Hogan, Gonzalina PotoGold, Abe Iggy and William Kain. She applied to EMS on March 2, 2023. In her application she stated she had no formal medical training but some “school of hard knocks” personal experience. She summed up her interest by writing: “Los Santos needs help, and I want to be one of its helpers; I am determined to stay here and be one of those whose sirens I have personally heard on the way to treat my loved ones, giving solace by announcing someone out there in the dark is on their way to care for the residents of this city.”

Cozy currently also works at RHL as a Relief Manager.

Cozy used to do a lot of Dodo Prime deliveries when she first came to the city, and continued to do so even after joining the EMS. She was hired as a temp driver at Dodo Logistics by Ernest Brewer on April 15, 2023. She was promoted to Junior Driver in May, to Senior Driver in June, and to Relief Manager by Finn O'Sullivan on July 5. The company rebranded as RHL on August 14, 2023.

Cozy is also employed by Doctor's Orders (the hospital gift shop): her title is Editor-in-Chief of the EMS newsletter Dispatches. She is a manager for Otto's Mini Mart, owned by her great-granddaughter Jayna Docere and her daughter Ophelia Blackwell. She is a partner in Hargrove Enterprises, owned by her fiance Doug Hargrove, which makes and sells seven day polish.

### Personal Life

Cozy was not expecting to date in the city, but became close friends with Doug Hargrove, a much younger EMS she helped train. The two delivered packages together, worked alongside each other as EMS and were friends for several months before their feelings blossomed into a romance in August of 2023. They got engaged on November 14, 2023.

## Gallery

Doug proposes to Cozy, November 14, 2023GTA-style portrait