Molly was an A student in high school, winning science awards, graduating a year early with honors. Declining a science scholarship to an upstate university because she was told “young ladies don’t do that,” she graduated from Brooklyn College. Molly’s first career was in the NYC public school system, first as an elementary school teacher then as a guidance counselor on the Lower East Side. Starting a family with her husband Ed, they moved to Tappan, spending the rest of their lives in Rockland County.

Molly was always interested in architecture and design; she found her calling in real estate when she joined Kirschner Bryant in Tappan, and then opened Mason Samett Associates in the early 1980s, specializing in luxury homes. Her success was tied to her ability to build personal relationships, to be discrete and to write compelling ads in the Sunday New York Times – who knew there were so many sybaritic spaces in Sneden’s Landing! She built a career showing beautiful homes to repeat clients who became friends.

In addition to real estate, Molly was involved with various women’s groups that supported women in business. But she made her greatest philanthropic impact with the Rockland Center for the Arts, where she was a board member for many years. Those of you who knew Molly know of her cognitive struggles in her last few years. But she spent those years a happy woman with love in her heart.

Her last words were “I Love You,” said to a nurse she’d never met before! We will remember her as someone who blazed their own trail, and wanted most of all to share love. She is survived by her children: Evan (Gail) and Andrew (Amy), 4 grandchildren: Rachel (Travis) Ottelien, AJ, Lily and Jack Samett, and her brother, Howard Mason.