She attended William Penn High School for Girls with the great-grandmother of the Fine Brothers,[1] and in 1917 was class president.
[2] Majer led a successful fundraising campaign to build women's tennis courts on what, for a few years, was a vacant lot on the southeast corner of Thirty-Fourth and Walnut streets.
Kelly, the son of an Irish Catholic immigrant and ten years her senior, won a gold medal for sculling in the 1920 Olympics.
She and Kelly had four children: Margaret "Peggy" Katherine (1925–1991), John "Kell" Brendan Jr. (1927–1985), Grace Patricia (1929–1982) and Elizabeth "Lizanne" Anne (1933–2009).
In 1935, she began a long association with the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, serving on its auxiliary and board of corporators.
Majer was also recognized in the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania [10] Kelly died of pneumonia on January 6, 1990, in Linwood, New Jersey.