Martha Ann Zivley

Austin American-Statesman, Thursday, April 10, 2003

Martha Ann Zivley, longtime Austin bridge player, passed away on April 6, 2003. Martha Ann was born in San Antonio in 1907 and graduated from Brackenridge High School at the age of 15, second in a class of 200 students. She entered the University of Texas at Austin and studied on undergraduate and graduate levels simultaneously, earning both a B.A. in Economics and an M.B.A. in 1926, when she was nineteen years old. Following graduation, she opened the Martha Ann Zivley Typing Service, a business for faculty and students, through which she and her staff could provide assistance in the preparation and typing of manuscripts and papers, primarily theses and dissertations, and continued to operate this business until January 2001. During the seventy years her business was in operation, thousands of students and faculty members benefited from her organizational skills and her expertise in the typing and editing of manuscripts and papers, and she was proud to have touched so many lives in a positive way. Funeral services will be 12:00 noon Friday, April 11, 2002, at St. Austin Catholic Church, 2010 Guadalupe.