Barbara Bacon

1941 - 2021

Barbara Bacon
November 14, 1941 - December 15, 2021
Barbara Bacon passed away peacefully in Walnut Creek on December 15th 2021 after a courageous battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband Bill, sister Joan, daughters Connie and Meg, and her extended family and many dear friends.

Barbara was born November 14th 1941 to Jack Rountree and Ursula Herold in Plainfield, New Jersey. After the death of her father in 1959, Ursula moved the girls back to Nebraska where she graduated high school and got her BA from University of Nebraska. Barbara did a tour of Europe when she graduated and then moved out west to San Francisco where she met and married John Bacon. They moved around the country but settled back in the Bay Area in 1974 to Walnut Creek where Barbara called her home until her death.

When she got her three girls settled in school, Barbara decided to go back to school herself and earned a Masters in Architecture from Cal. She was elected to the Planning Commission in Walnut Creek which steered her to into a career as a City Planner.

Most recently she was active in the Walnut Creek Senior Center and the PEO. She had friends across the country from when she was a young girl in Plainfield, to Gamma Phi Sorority in Nebraska, to those she made at Cal and her activities as a retiree in a town she called home.

She had a great outlook on life and rolled with the punches. She had a knack for not stressing about things out her control. One of her favorite sayings being, "We will cross that bridge when we come to it." You will be greatly missed.

In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to The American Cancer Society. There will be a celebration of her life in the Spring of 2022.