Marie Dreyer

Marie B. Dreyer
1919 - 2013

Of Atherton was born in Connecticut and raised in Evanston Illinois. She Attended Hillsdale College in Michigan a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, recently receiving her 75 year award from the sorority. She graduated from Barat College of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest Illinois, with honors in English Literature, she was an extraordinary writer.

Marie's professional life included a career as an award winning salesperson for the Easterling Company, and was the first lady in the United States to receive Sales and Marketing Executive Association's Star Salesman award which was presented at the Chicago Amphitheater . She met Leo Dreyer while working in the business. She moved her young daughters Ann and Molly to California to be with Leo, where they had 3 more children; Michelle, Kevin, and Lisa. Leo and Marie started their own business Heritage House Tableware in San Francisco in 1963 and raised their family in Atherton. Marie was active in the PTA serving as president at Laurel elementary and Encinal School. Marie was an excellent piano player, she loved music and singing, Jazz being her favorite, Leo and Marie were amazing on the dance floor. She also loved to garden, cook, and enjoyed traveling to many wonderful places around the world: and throughout the United States. They enjoyed many adventurous times with their family skiing in the Tahoe and Yosemite area, and beaching at their family beach house in Capitola. Marie and Leo had a love of boating, and often traveled and lived aboard their Sea Ray boat for extended vacations in British Columbia and South East Alaska and Mexico. They were founding members of the Sea Ray Boat Club of Northern California.

Marie is survived by her husband Leo and daughters Ann Goodenough (Ed), Molly Horn-Farley (Paul), Michelle Takemoto (Lee), Lisa Dreyer (The Late John Campiglia), Son, Kevin Dreyer (Allison) and 11 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren, whom she loved dearly. She was preceeded in death by her sister Ann Curtain (Bill). We give special thanks to her care giver Ana, she is a devoted and caring friend who helped Marie through the last years of her life. Marie was a marvelous lady and Leo spared no sacrifice in his commitment to the love of his life, showing an incredible example of dedication to his wife of almost 55 years.

Services will be held on Monday Dec. 9Th at the Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave. Viewing and Rosary at 12:30 pm, with a funeral Mass celebrated at 1 pm. Burial will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1100 Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park with a reception at the family home in Atherton.