NameMary Bridget Kanitz
BirthVienna
MotherGertrude Gertrud Reif (1894-1943)
Spouses
Birth23 Dec 1921
Death17 Oct 2011
FatherDr. Claud Belton Lavender (1882-1955)
MotherMaggie Mae Neel (1889-1980)
Marriage4 Jun 1949
Notes for Mary Bridget Kanitz
{geni:about_me} "Brigitta Maria" as a child; later Mary Bridget.

The family appears in the 1940 US census for South Carolina, [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-2789...=M9QD-W9X:1040124960 Rock Hill].

Attended Vienna's [http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c...rhtheUJYRBp4hC1oYkSQ Humanistiches Gymnasium] for girls, which had been founded by the Association for developing Education for Women in 1903. The Association's president, [http://www.geni.com/people/Editha-Mautner-von-Markhof/6000000024448814738 '''Editha Mautner von Markhof'''] (Baroness von Sunstenau), a philanthropist, was an energetic supporter of higher education for girls. She helped initiate founding of that first humanistic high school for girls in the German-speaking countries. At great financial sacrifice they bought for the school a building in Vienna VI Rahlgasse 4 in 1910.
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