Her first marriage was to Milton ("Milt" or "Milty") Leon Schwartz (1901–1992), on June 20, 1954, in
The Bronx. Schwartz, who was years older, had been a saxophonist with the
Al Trace Orchestra; he was co-owner with Ralph Mitchell (
né Ralph Michelev; 1916–2004) of the acclaimed Chicago jazz club the Preview Lounge, at 7 West
Randolph Street, that ran from about 1945 until the summer of 1960. At the same address, Schwartz and Mitchell also owned the Modern Jazz Room (formerly the Encore Room and formerly Mambo City), upstairs. Her and Schwartz' marriage was
annulled in
New York Supreme Court on May 28, 1956, refereed by
Ed Koch (who years later become
Mayor of New York City). In 1958, news media reported that Aboulafia was officially changing her name to Kathy Barr. In 1965, in
Manhattan, under her birth name, "Marilyn Aboulafia," she married Irwin M. Glickman (1930–2011). In 1966, she and Glickman had a daughter — Sylvia Beth Glickman. In 1968, reflecting on her disappointment about her first marriage, Barr confided that she was happy in her second marriage and declared, "This time, I wanted to work at it." Barr died in
Hollywood, Florida, on June 21, 2008. Her daughter Sylvia married Jeffrey Zina Johnston in 2005. Sylvia and Jeff had two sons, both born in Hollywood, Florida: John Michael Thunder Johnston, born in 2005, and Lightning James Marshall Hawk Johnston, born in 2008. ==Discography==