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Mary Randolph Jamieson was bom Mary Matteson on December 7. 1912, in Chicago, the adored only child of Margaret t and DcForest Majteson.
V Called "Mike" by her family, she was schooled in Chicago and attended Smith College, class of 1934. After college, she traveled at : home and abroad, driving with a girlfriend to Mexico and back. • ' She took a job at Sears Roebuck’s advertising department, then went west during World War n, to work at the Alta Ski Lodge in Utah ; Returning to Chicago after the war. she met James P. Jamieson, a bond broker who was swept away at first Sight. They married in | 1948, although they were of different faiths, a bold move in -,iose days. ; Ever restless. Mary drove east in the mid-fifties with nothing but a suitcase and 21 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica in the ; trunk of her convertible. She fell in love with Virginia and with foxhunting, and bought land in Spenyville. , Mary lived in the stable, furnished with an Oriental carpet and a hot plate, while she and Jamie built their house, "High Thicket” She was deeply involved with the Rappahannock County Library and the funding and design of its : new building. Her love of foxhunting never waned, and she rode with the field several days a week into her eighties. The Jamiesons had been married for 55 years when James died in 2003. They had no children. ! Mrs. Jamieson passed away Wednesday, December 7, 2005. Scores of in-laws and friends
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