Marjorie Rehm Jacobs, 99

Local Home Economics teacher

December 28, 1926 - October 18, 2026

Marjorie Rehm Jacobs — a 50 year resident of Belle Mead — died unexpectedly in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, on Sunday  October 18, 2026, just two months shy of her 100th birthday.  

Marjorie was born December 28, 1926, near Parma, Missouri, to George Henry and Bessie Ann  Frailey Rehm. Her family later purchased a farm in Advance, Missouri, where they moved to grow various crops and to raise Black Angus beef cattle and other livestock. She loved peaches, so much so that this was her childhood nickname.

After high school, Marjorie attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, earning a degree in Home Economics in 1950. She went on to a varied and fulfilling career, working as a Home Extension Agent, a kitchen designer, a Home Economist for the Metropolitan Utilities District  (the local gas company) in Omaha, Nebraska, and as a middle school Home Economics teacher  in Branchburg, New Jersey, where she taught from 1969 until her retirement in 1992. During this  period she lived in Belle Mead, which she called home for over 50 years. She was a gifted baker, and a gracious entertainer of guests in her home. 

While still working, Marjorie continued her education in the evenings at Rutgers University, earning a master's degree in education, and completing all the course work required for a doctorate, though she did not complete a dissertation.

In later years she settled in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Marjorie was a competitive Bridge player throughout her lifetime, with master's points to her name. She even participated in the Bridge group at her assisted living facility, and made a grand slam as recently as 2023.

She was equally passionate about theater, and enjoyed attending  productions in New York, as well as at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.

She loved to garden and tended to her plants and her cherry tree with extreme care. She was also a voracious reader of The Wall Street Journal. She particularly enjoyed cutting out articles as she read, to gift to friends and family when she happened upon a story that she felt was particularly relevant to their lives. 

Marjorie had a wonderful sense of humor and delighted in regaling an often unsuspecting group with a joke and a twinkle in her eye. She lit up a room. She was kind and also incredibly  generous. She showed up for the people she loved and she possessed great tenacity, an independent spirit, and a true zest for life.  

Marjorie was preceded in death by her husband (and longtime Bridge partner), Harry R. Jacobs Jr., with whom she shared nearly 67 years of marriage, and by all six of her siblings: Ralph Dale Rehm MD, Enola Faye Rehm Todoroff, Norma Bess Rehm Perkins, Carl Raymond Rehm, George Larry Rehm, and Ronald Keith Rehm.  

She is remembered with great love and admiration by her daughters, Jean Kytt Marcus and Ann Rehm Oniskey; her sons-in-law Barry Philip Marcus and Leonard J. Oniskey Jr.; her granddaughters Marisa Whitney Marcus and Taylor Kaitlin Oniskey, and Taylor’s husband  Matthew Robert Walters. Her legacy lives on in the family she cherished, the young minds she  helped shape, and the many memories that will continue to bring laughter and warmth to those who knew her.  

Memorial donations may be made to McCarter Theatre in Princeton or to the American Cancer Society.