Marian Ann J. Matwiejczyk Montgomery was born and raised in Bucks County Pennsylvania where she began as a Home Economics Teacher at Holicong Junior HIgh School. She is the daughter of Stanley and Marian Matwiejczyk and the grand daughter of Charles and Anna Gulden and John and Pauline Matwiejczyk. Upon earning her Masters at Cornell University in Museum Studies/American Decorative Arts she began as the Historic Site manager for Graeme Park an 18th century site of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. While pursuing her Ph.D at New York University with classes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art she met Barry and they were married in 1986. Dr. Montgomery has held professional museum positions with the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, and The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future as well as managing curatorial, archival and administrative projects. She is currently the Curator of Clothing and Textiles at The Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Marian Ann J. Matwiejczyk Montgomery was born and raised in Bucks County Pennsylvania where she began as a Home Economics Teacher at Holicong Junior HIgh School. She is the daughter of Stanley and Marian Matwiejczyk and the grand daughter of Charles and Anna Gulden and John and Pauline Matwiejczyk. Upon earning her Masters at Cornell University in Museum Studies/American Decorative Arts she began as the Historic Site manager for Graeme Park an 18th century site of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. While pursuing her Ph.D at New York University with classes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art she met Barry and they were married in 1986. Dr. Montgomery has held professional museum positions with the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, and The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future as well as managing curatorial, archival and administrative projects. She is currently the Curator of Clothing and Textiles at The Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.