Le Biografie di Infobridge

Mary Martin Jones nacque il 24 ottobre del 1920 a Plymouth in North Carolina e crebbe in Chapel Hill una cittadina poco distante.

Più tardi si trasferì a Wrightsville Beach, sempre in NC, dove conobbe il suo, primo marito Walter Martin che era un militare di carriera.

Con il primo marito ebbe due figli Suzanne e Dave e girò il mondo vivendo in Germania e in Giappone e in vari Stati degli USA.

Fu proprio in Giappone che conobbe il Bridge a cui la iniziò il marito e se ne innamorò perdutamente.

Più tardi si sposò una seconda volta e tornò a vivere in NC a Winter Park, dove divenne una bridgista rinomata guadagnando il titolo di World Life Master della ACBL e dove morì il 27 marzo del 2011.

Born in 1920 in Plymouth, N.C., Mary Martin Jones grew up in Chapel Hill, which led her to become a lifelong supporter of the University of North Carolina Tarheels. She later moved to Wrightsville Beach, N.C., and met her first husband, Walter Martin, who was in the Army, at a dance at Fort Fisher.

It was bridge that Jones loved most. She hosted parties at her Winter Park home, competed in tournaments and earned the distinction of Life Master from the American Contract Bridge League.

The two married in 1944 and had two children, Suzanne Newkirk of Winter Park and Dave Martin of Leesburg, Va. Her husband became a career Army officer, and the family moved across the country and around the world, living in Japan, Germany, Georgia, Texas, Virginia and Alabama.

It was in Japan that Jones' husband taught her to play bridge. The game was her "portable avocation," Dave Martin said. Newkirk added that the popularity of bridge, especially among Army wives, ensured that she had a partner "everywhere she went."

Jones, of Winter Park, died Sunday. She was 90.