Marjorie L. Katzenberg, a homemaker and artist, died Wednesday of cancer at Brightwood Center in Lutherville. The Pikesville resident was 78.
Born Marjorie Levi in Baltimore, she was raised in Sudbrook Park, Mount Washington and Owings Mills. She was a 1944 Park School graduate and earned a diploma in textile design at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. She also received a bachelor of science degree from what is now Towson University in 1979.
Mrs. Katzenberg designed patterns for materials used in the manufacture of women's clothing in New York City in the 1940s. She later worked with patients at what was then Rosewood State Hospital in Owings Mills.
An artist, she drew for Marlin Designs, a Pikesville needlepoint business she co-owned. She also studied painting under Baltimore artist Jacob Glushakow. Family members said she adopted her teacher's urban streetlife style and exhibited and sold her watercolor paintings at shows at the Park School, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and the Johns Hopkins University.
Mrs. Katzenberg was also a vegetable and flower gardener who collected and cultivated orchids. A member of the Suburban Garden Club, she competed in local and regional floral shows and did arrangements for the Sinai Hospital Women's Auxiliary, the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, and the Box 414 Association Ladies Auxiliary, where she was a member.
In the last decade she was a travel agent at Commerce Travel in Pikesville. She traveled extensively and had made many visits to Switzerland, among other destinations.
Mrs. Katzenberg played tennis and golf at the Suburban Club, where she was a member.
She belonged to Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
Services will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Sol Levinson & Bros., 8900 Reisterstown Road.
Survivors include her husband of 48 years, Julian L. Katzenberg; two sons, Bruce S. Katzenberg of Reisterstown and Roger L. Katzenberg of Sudbrook Park; a brother, Robert L. Levi of Pikesville; and three grandchildren.
