Marilyn Joyce Conrad passed away on Aug. 19, 2026, surrounded by friends, after a brief illness.

Born on April 14, 1936 in Oakland, California, and raised in the Bay Area, she graduated from Mills College with a BA in Fine Arts.

She was very happily married to two wonderful men. Her first husband of 28 years, George Conrad, a German Fulbright scholar, later a banker, passed away in 1987.

During his career with Bank of America, they lived in Marin County, Hong Kong, and Frankfurt, Germany.

They retired to Glenwood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and spent summers attending their beloved Ravinia Festival and traveling.

Marilyn then worked at the Chicago Art Institute as assistant to the curator of Department of European Decorative Arts.

She moved to Santa Barbara in 1999 to be retired near good friends. Here she met and married Norman Jacobs, a prominent Santa Barbara psychologist. They lived and traveled together happily for 10 years until his unexpected death in 2014.

Marilyn lived the past years at Valle Verde, where she treasured the many new friends she made there. She leaves all of them, her best friends Joe Scott and Michael Donovan of Chicago, and her friends and adopted family of 58 years, Linda and Peter Beuret, now of Santa Barbara.

She thanks Assisted Home Health and Hospice for the wonderful care she received.
Marilyn requested no services be held.

Memorial donations to Santa Barbara Botanical Garden.