Mary Jane Farell (March 12, 1920 – 5 October 2015), also known as Mary Jane Kauder, was an American bridge player.
Farell grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and "couldn't wait to get home from school to kibitz whenever my mother had the game at our house." The family moved to Los Angeles when she was 17 and she began playing duplicate bridge there "with the young men I dated". She married one of them, Arnold Kauder, who was her mentor. (They divorced.) She began teaching bridge after World War II.
Mary Jane and Arnold Kauder won the Hilliard Mixed Pairs (a secondary "national" championship after 1946) in 1949 and finished second in 1950. They were second again in 1957, behind Bob Adams and Marilyn Johnson.https://web3.acbl.org/nabcwinners?event=Mixed+Pairs+%28Hilliard%29 Hilliard Mixed Pairs winners and runners-up (1931–1962). ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-17. Johnson and Mary Jane Farell became a strong partnership and won three world championships together.
Her second husband Jules Farell died in 2005.
Farell was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1998.
Bridge accomplishments
Honors
ACBL Hall of Fame, 1998"Induction by Year" . Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
Wins
World Mixed Pairs (1) 1966 North American Bridge Championships (14) von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1978 Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1960 Hilliard Mixed Pairs (1) 1959 Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1982 Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (10) 1964, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1984, 1990
Runners-up
North American Bridge Championships Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (4) 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (4) 1961, 1967, 1973, 1987 Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1988 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1969, 1989
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