- Date Of Birth: September 25, 1925
- Date Of Death: June 12, 2013
- State: Maryland
Hollis D. O’Brochta, age 87, of Westminster, Maryland, formerly of Rices Landing, Pennsylvania, died suddenly and peacefully in the early hours of Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at the Carroll Hospital Center.
She was born September 25, 1925 in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania the daughter of the late Ralph E. and Myrtle Cole Dowlin.
Mrs. O’Brochta was a graduate of Jefferson High School, Class of 1943. She then attended Penn Commercial College gaining legal secretarial skills.
She worked as a legal secretary in the Waynesburg District Attorney’s Office and also a Maryland firm of attorneys.
Mrs. O’Brochta was an active member of Hewitt Presbyterian Church in Rices Landing, Pennsylvania, and the Order of the Eastern Star #135 in Waynesburg, and served as Regent for the Daughters of the American Revolution Greene Academy Chapter.
On July 1, 1950 she married the late Andrew A. O’Brochta who died June 26, 2005. They had been married for 55 years.
Surviving are three daughters, Valerie Fyans and her husband, Chris of Horsted Keynes, England, Andrea Hauff of Colorado Springs, CO and Hillary O’Brochta of Finksburg, MD; four grandchildren, Tyra Little, Declan, Cavan and Aidan Fyans; three great grandsons, Drew, Kai and Jory.
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