In Diss 1983ish with Stephanie and Sophie and the wonderful Toby dog
1956 marriage to David Patrick Chester Price
With her older sister Ottilie ?1944
Little tot!
Java ?1930
In Java
In Java 1927
At her brother and sister in law’s Ruby wedding in 1995
c1935
1963 or 1964
Christmas 2001
Diss, 1985
At her front door in Diss
With the christening robe she made for her granddaughter Mary (pictured)
And the family is complete with her three daughters in 1967
Three generations: with her mother Jettie van Gelsdorp-Soesman c1960
Her first daughter taken 1958
Probably 1935ish with Ottilie Henriette her older sister
1948
With her dearest late friends Monique and Frances
Grandson with his mother and Grandmother
1992
1992
Fine lace hankie given to Marie in 1945 by elderly neighbours in Bussum, Netherlands, as a thankyou for sharing food with them during WW2
Marie's embroidery. The dark tray cloth begun in the 1960s was the last time she filled in a template. She designed and sewed the other other two this century using traditional Romanian Saxon cross stitch motifs
Cambridge 1985 at Henriette’s graduation
The baby among her siblings 1927
Training/working as a nurse in Manchester Royal 1952
Always up for a lovely lunch out. xxx
1990s Overwintering black-headed gulls feeding from her quietly outstretched hand at Diss Mere; Marie was the first they trusted
1970s Marie with her beloved Rani
1990s In the garden that she created at Lower Denmark St Diss
At her granddaughters wedding in 2017
Meeting her great-granddaughter December 2021
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