Date: Fri 17-Jul-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: CURT

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Marian-Treble-centenarian

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Mrs Treble Celebrates A Century

(with cut)

Friends, neighbors, and family members gathered at the Knollwood Drive home of

Marian Treble late Wednesday afternoon to honor her on the occasion of her

100th birthday.

Mrs Treble, whose keen intelligence and generous spirit has brightened the

Knollwood neighborhood for nearly 40 years, still welcomes (accompanied by the

frisky salutations of her beloved poodle, Mindy) friends to her door and birds

to her innumerable feeders.

The greetings and honors that poured into Mrs Treble's small home on Wednesday

included a letter of congratulations from President Clinton and a proclamation

from First Selectman Herb Rosenthal that Wednesday would be known as "Marian

Treble Day" in Newtown. In addition, the flag in front of Edmond Town Hall was

flown in her honor on that day.

The house was filled with flowers from well-wishers, and friends Frank Petrone

and Eileen Elliott even brought birthday cakes.

Born outside of London on July 15, 1898, Marian Lock Treble has been a Newtown

resident for nearly four decades. She moved here in 1959, shortly after her

husband, book publisher Arthur L. Treble, retired from his New York City job

with the London-based publishing house of Frederick B. Warne. Mr Treble died

in 1966.

Arthur and Marian Treble met when she was a young stenographer, also working

for Warne. They were married in New York's City Hall in 1922, a year after he

had moved to the firm's New York office.

The couple lived on Long Island for 30 years, where they raised two daughters,

Cicely and Joan, and later welcomed two granddaughters.

After a brief period living in West Redding, they moved to Newtown in 1959.

Right away, she said, they knew this would be a place where they could retire

and be content.

That sense of contentment still pervades Mrs Treble's modest but comfortable

home on Knollwood Drive, conveying the sense to all who visit that life is

meant to be interesting, graceful, and long.