Marilyn Rose (Logsdon) Barnes

Marilyn Rose Barnes, 92, left this life September 11, 2025 in the home she and her husband Dennis built more than sixty years earlier, on the land bordered by her beloved hills of home. The second child and eldest daughter of Gerald and Katy Logsdon, she was born in her grandmother's home April 9, 1933. She and Dennis married November 16, 1957, separated only by his death in 2021. They welcomed four children into the world, along with thirteen grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.

Marilyn is survived by her daughter Kate (Tim) Cox, and her sons Peter (Lisa) and John (Julie), as well as grandchildren Emilie (Jerry), Caroline (Dougie), Annie (Jonathan), Maggie (Nick), Riley (Leanna), Tyler (Kyle), Eileen, Patrick (Jesse), Joshua (Nikki), Adeline (Bobby), Madeline (Casey), and Olivia (Cody). Her daughter Sarah (Jason) Frey died in 2010, and her granddaughter Elizabeth, in 1997. There are seventeen great-grandchildren, Gerald, Roisin, Eddie, Amelia, Daisy, Benji, Cole, Madi, Hadley, Anderson, Walker, Silas, Ezra, Emmett, Evie, Esme, and Finn.

Also left to remember her are sisters Berny (Brad) Billock; Rosy (Otto) Binau; Teresa (John) Amert, and Gerry (Emery) Walton, her sister-in-law Carol (Gene) Logsdon, and stepbrothers Ted and John McCallister. Siblings Gene, Kathleen, Giles, and Jenny preceded her in death, as did in-laws Jim (Jenny) Barnes and Carol (Giles) Logsdon, and a step-grandson, Michael Allen. Her stepmother, Sarah Logsdon, died in 2020.

Marilyn graduated Upper Sandusky High School in 1951 and soon after went to work for Dr. C. B. Schoolfield, for whom she would work, either full or part-time, for more than ten years. Dedicated to building a home and life with Dennis and their children, she was an excellent cook and a master of pie crusts, fostering a love of good food even as she encouraged a passion for reading and of the outdoors - teaching her kids the fundamentals of sports from softball to hockey. She enjoyed weaving, birding, mushroom and arrowhead hunting - as well as traveling and helping Dennis with photoshoots - and continued to plant a garden into her 90s.

"To everything there is a season" - Marilyn knew how to pull the very most out of each one, celebrating even minor holidays (Groundhog Day), taking picnics, going sledding or ice skating, going for drives and bird watching or exploring the woods for wildflowers and hunting hickory nuts. She leaves a legacy of grace and dignity - of surviving heartbreak and loss, of going gracefully into old age; she set an example that raised high the bar, and she will be forever remembered and missed.

A memorial gathering has been set for Friday, September 19, 4 - 6 p.m. at Lucas Batton Funeral Home.

Donations may be made to Hospice of Wyandot Memorial, the Upper Sandusky Community Library, or St. Peter School and can be sent to Lucas-Batton, 476 S. Sandusky Ave. Upper Sandusky, OH 43351.

Hospice of Wyandot Memorial

Upper Sandusky Community Library
Upper Sandusky OH

St. Peter's Catholic School