Marga Samsonowski (1925 - June 1, 2009) was originally the wife of disc
jockey Pete Felleman. While she was expecting her third child, Gino, she fell
in love with Pieternella "Pia" Beck
and they started a lifelong relationship.Partner Pieternella Beck
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The Blue Note, Pje. Gil Vicente, 29620 Torremolinos, Málaga, Spain
Marga Samsonowski (1925 - June 1, 2009) was originally the wife of disc
jockey Pete Felleman. While she was expecting her third child, Gino, she fell
in love with Pieternella "Pia" Beck
and they started a lifelong relationship.
Pia and Marga were born the same month and year (September 1925), met in 1956 and did not separate until their death in 2009. "They were made to live together," Gino Felleman recalled. "They loved each other all their lives and raised their three children with respect and love."
When Gino was born in 1956, Marga and Pia were already living together. The relationship with his biological father was not good, and for him there was no family but his mothers and two brothers. Felleman said, "I never knew anything else and I never had the feeling that we were different."
The five had arrived in Torremolinos in their fabulous red Dodge. Felleman remembers those years with a nostalgia blurred by some cruel shadow. He remembers that the children collected comments from the elders and nailed them mercilessly, so he didn't want to go to school. For the rest, Pia and Marga lived their love naturally. Everyone knew they were a couple, but not because they had an interest in it being known. Nor in that it was not known. "They didn't want labels or lesbians. They never came out of the closet because they were never inside," he said.
After closing The Blue Note, Pia and Marga continued to live in Malaga, and Beck did her best to promote Spain: she wrote three tourist guides about the Costa del Sol in Dutch and presented a radio program, no less than five languages, on La Voz de Málaga, a local radio station.
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