Mary Case Dekker

I still remember Mary with respect and joy, and wish she were still in our lives.

Dear Michael, Chris and Fred

I am so sorry to hear of your mom’s passing. I will always remember what a good friend she was and how wonderful and creative she was in so many ways.The Powder River drawings, one new pair of Mary Jane’s once a year for the trip to New York. We played with play dough, put sculptures together with Lego on your kitchen table and so much more from when we first met at nursery school on, Mrs. Egenburger and meeting inside San Quentin while our old...

In 1986 Mary was in charge of a house tour in San Rafael. She helped my mom get her house ready and she had exquisite taste and great ideas. But when we saw what Mary had done to her own house, well, that was the best...she did a Christmas tree in the theme of a partridge in a pear tree, and she hand painted all the pears. I was absolutely struck by it, and I have been doing pears in various mediums in my own artwork for over 30 years thanks to that tree. It was also during the set up for...

We loved her vibrancy, her artistic gifts, and her passion for those she loved and the causes she believed in. Her watchword phrase for Marin Heritage was a firm "The original architect was always right!" We all had fun when Mary was around.

Fred, Chris, and Mike. I am so sorry to read about the passing of your mom. I jave such great memories of San Rafael Junior Theater, and both your parents helping paint the sets and holding cast parties. Im so sorry for your loss.

I had the pleasure of being introduced to Mary in mid 1974 by her San Rafael neighbor,Bryce Anderson, the then MarinIJ editor who had attended the San Rafael City Council meeting where I had spoken in opposition to the then pending plan to demolish the historic residence we called "the Dollar Mansion" (now "Falkirk"). We soon were joined by other like minded people & formalized our group as "Marin Heritage" which supported the City's adoption of a bond measure used to purchase & maintain the...