City of Oaks Funeral Home & Cremation
Obituary
Marilyn D. Jacoby
Raleigh, North Carolina
Age 93.
Died 10/24/2025.
Marilyn “Marny” Louise (Donenwirth) Jacoby, age 93, peacefully passed away on October 23, 2025, surrounded by her loving family. Marny was born on January 22, 1932, in Canton, Ohio and attended Ohio Wesleyan University majoring in both English and German, and graduated cum laude. Afterward, she was recruited and offered a position with the CIA and was also offered a full-ride scholarship in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago; she chose to marry her loving husband, Dale H. Jacoby, and start a family.
Throughout her life, Marny was an avid reader, inquisitive, dignified, a good listener, and liked to think about and discuss topics with objectivity. She was knowledgeable about a wide array of topics and liked to be challenged by ideas. She enjoyed singing, playing bridge, cooking, camping, painting, the outdoors, gardening, traveling, and flying with Dale. In addition, she loved baking from old family recipes, passing down stories about family history, and raising her four daughters.
Marny worked in a medical department at Ohio State University after college and always filled in at Dale’s dental practice whenever needed. She was passionate about serving and volunteering in her community and devoted time to help guide efforts at the Rossford Public Library, the Wood County Board of Mental Health, CCL, Rossford High School, her church, and with friends. Traits that were particularly strong in Marny were that she was always hopeful and positive in her outlook, particularly in times of adversity. Marny was kind, gentle, good-hearted, and lived a life that demonstrated the importance of ethics and morals.
Marny is survived by her four daughters: Anne Whiting, Jill Simon, Jennifer Jacobs, and Leslie Young, and has six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Marny was dearly loved by her family and friends and will be forever missed.
Charitable Organizations
If interested, charitable organizations that were important to Marny and Dale include:
North Raleigh Presbyterian Church (NRPC)
NRPC provided so much care for my parents when they were not as able to attend church after Covid. Their community outreach programs are a staple within Raleigh and provide so much care and productive outcomes.
Address:
11905 Strickland Rd, Raleigh, NC 27613
Phone: (919) 848-9529
https://www.northraleighpc.org/
Transitions LifeCare
Transitions Hospice Home was amazing and is a non-profit medical hospice. We were able to gather and stay with my mother the whole time she was there and volunteers provided food, quilts, and artwork for the patients and families and the care was stellar. Transitions provides care not only for adults but also children, offers free, specialized grief programs for patients and families, spiritual care, and other types of assistance. We had a fabulous experience that was both sad a times, but mostly joyful, in a lovely and gentle environment.
Address:
250 Hospice Circle, Raleigh, NC 27607
Phone: 919-828-0890
https://www.transitionslifecare.org/
NC Food Bank Organization
Both Dale and Marny valued of and supported the NC Food Bank, which serves 34 counties in Central Eastern North Carolina.
Address:
1924 Capital Blvd. Raleigh, NC 27604
Phone: 919-875-0707
https://secure.foodbankcenc.org
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City of Oaks Cremation and Funeral Home is a full-service funeral home in Raleigh, serving all of North Carolina and beyond. We provide an alternative to costly funeral homes and every day we help families in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and all over North Carolina make simple, affordable funeral arrangements.
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Apples to Apples
Just like all other licensed funeral homes in North Carolina, City of Oaks Cremation, LLC is regulated by the NC Board of Funeral Service.
The same laws that apply to the big corporate funeral homes also apply to the modest independently owned firms like ours. All crematories in North Carolina, regardless of who owns them, are inspected annually by the state and must adhere to the same rules and laws.
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We're committed to providing families within our community unsurpassed service before, during and after the time of loss.
Our staff will provide clear communication to your family through each step as we move forward from the original phone call notifying us of a death to the time we deliver the urn back to your family. We will treat your family with the utmost respect, as we honor the wishes of your loved one.
We promise to make this process affordable and as endurable as possible.
State Wide
Our Funeral Home is located in Wake County NC; however, we provide our services to families throughout the entire State.
Unlike other funeral homes, we don't charge an additional mileage fee. Regardless of what county you live in, we can help your family with making simple, affordable funeral arrangements. From Asheville to Wilmington, we're proud to help families statewide.
Our Services
$1196.75
Nobody likes surprise costs added in at the last minute. We guarantee you will not find any hidden charges here. We include everything you need for a simple or direct cremation. Simple, affordable and reliable. We have not changed the cost of our direct cremation service since we opened City of Oaks in 2012.
$2875.66
We offer the option of choosing how you receive your loved ones remains. Selecting our Direct Cremation with Solidified Remains option is a beautiful way to transform cremated remains into 40-60 “stones” that you can hold.
$1917.84
City of Oaks Funeral Home and Cremation provides an affordable cremation option with onsite visitation. Nobody likes surprise costs added in at the last minute. We guarantee you will not find any hidden charges here. Simple, affordable and reliable.
$1596.75
City of Oaks Funeral Home and Cremation provides an affordable cremation with a private family viewing. A private family viewing allows up to 10 immediate family members or friends to spend time with a loved one when a public visitation is not preferred.
$2497.50
An immediate burial has the same end result as a traditional burial; however, we have eliminated the extra (sometimes unnecessary) services prior to getting to the cemetery. Not everyone wants an open casket for viewing or a limousine for the family. Despite the term immediate, we can move as fast as you need or as slow as you like. This option simply allows you to save money by eliminating some of the fancy extras at the funeral home.
$6081.48
We offer the same traditional funeral services as the big corporately owned funeral homes in the area; however, we cost about half the amount. You might consider a traditional funeral service if your family is looking for an open casket visitation, a traditional church service or a funeral service in the funeral home's chapel. A traditional funeral service can be altered to fit the needs of your family.
$3033.75
This establishment is one of a select number of funeral homes who meet the criteria for providing green funeral service by the Green Burial Council; a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally sustainability in the field of funeral service. Our Green options allow for a funeral to take place without the use of toxic and non-biodegradable materials/chemicals.
$2640.59
As an alternative to traditional cremation, City of Oaks Funeral Home also offers Aquamation. The Aquamation process, often referred to as alkaline hydrolysis, uses a solution of water and potassium hydroxide to facilitate natural decomposition.