Marianne Josephine (Marjo) Woudhuysen died peacefully on September 30 in her home in Greenwich, CT. She was born on September 19, 1921 in Haarlem the Netherlands to Maurits and Marie de Kadt. Beyond her parents she was predeceased by her husband Andries D. Woudhuysen, her younger sister Edith of Fairfield CT and elder brother Sidney of Aerdenhout, the Netherlands. When war came to The Netherlands in 1940, her family was vacationing in southern France and managed to leave from there to the United States. In New York City she reconnected with a Dutch friend Andries (Dries) Woudhuysen who had also escaped the German occupation through Sweden, and managed to reach the United States from there, traveling through the Soviet Union, Japan and Canada. They were married in NY City in 1942 and moved to wartime London where they lived until after the end of the war and where her husband served with the Dutch armed forces and later the Dutch Foreign Service. Marjo served in the Red Cross woman’s military auxiliary organized by the Dutch government in exile. Marjo and her husband shared a long and happy marriage with travel to many countries and an active social life. After the war the couple moved to Washington DC where her husband was a Financial Attaché at the Dutch Embassy. They moved to New York City in 1952 when he joined the investment banking firm of Burnham & Company, later Drexel Burnham Lambert. In 1956 they settled in Rye NY. Marjo became a well-known member of the Dutch community in New York City and served for many years in several charities in Rye of which the Twigs of Westchester County and their Twig Antique Shop was especially dear to her. She also served as a volunteer at the New York United Hospital Medical Center in Port Chester. Her husband became a prominent international security trader at the Burnham firm and was elected partner in 1957. He retired in 1981 but continued to be involved with the firm and for almost two years served as consultant in its Tokyo office. Marjo’s time in Japan and her involvement with the American community there was a high point of her and her husband’s early retirement years. After their return from Japan they moved to Greenwich CT where she volunteered with Neighbor to Neighbor and continued to live after her husband died in 1996. Marjo was a woman with an outgoing personality and a well-developed sense of humor, a great hostess who loved to entertain her many friends. Shortly before her death she celebrated her 96th birthday with her daughter and a group of friends. She was devoted to her daughter and granddaughters and loved spending time with them. She is survived by her daughter Marianne Penn of Norwich, England and granddaughters Caroline Penn of London, England and Victoria Penn of Norwich, England. Interment will be private. A celebration of Marjo’s life will take place at a future date. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made in Marjo’s memory to Mercy Ships or to Doctors Without Borders.