She and her husband helped the city of Novi Sad to rebuild after it was bombarded in the 1848 Hungarian Revolution.

She rebuilt a fortune and left her wealth to help children get an education, hospitals to be funded, pensions to be paid, and a new orphanage.

[2] Their business in trading cloth did thrive, after the dowry brought to the wedding was used to start an enterprise.

[2] 1848 saw the start of the Hungarian Revolution that was led by Lajos Kossuth and the city of Novi Sad paid a high price.

[2] He was buried alongside their children Sofija and Kosta at Nikolajevska Church,[4][6] and she spent time with lawyers defending the inheritance he had left to her.

[2] On 9 September 1878, she made her own will leaving 470 acres of land to create a fund to educate the poor.

[8] In 2009, the city of Novi Sad decided to build a new primary school in Veternik, which they named after Marija Trandafil.