[2][3] Farell grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and "couldn't wait to get home from school to kibitz whenever my mother had the game at our house.
"[1] The family moved to Los Angeles when she was 17 and she began playing duplicate bridge there "with the young men I dated".
)[1] She began teaching bridge after World War II.
Mary Jane and Arnold Kauder won the Hilliard Mixed Pairs (a secondary "national" championship after 1946) in 1949 and finished second in 1950.
[4] Johnson and Mary Jane Farell became a strong partnership and won three world championships together.