Dolores Agnes Bratina Schoch, 82, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Jan. 7, 1938, and passed from this life to heaven, Sunday, April 26, 2020, in Williamsburg during a long sleep in home hospice care.
Married for nearly 50 years, she is survived by her grieving husband, Bruce Paul Schoch; daughter, Scottie Lynn Dean of Greensville, South Carolina; and three grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
Dolores, or “Dodi,” as she was known to her friends and colleagues, was a strong-willed and spirited lady who served her country for 40 years in U.S. Air Force and Army Civil Service. She was the first Retirement Services officer at Fort Eustis, and finished her government career as counselor in the U.S. Army transition management program. She began at Olmsted Air Base, Harrisburg, where she was the first female aircraft instrument repair technician during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later, while assigned to the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, she had the honor of taking dictation from former President Dwight Eisenhower during his 70th birthday celebration. She met and married a young captain, Bruce, and followed him to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and eventually to Fort Monroe and Fort Eustis.
Dodi loved decorating, sewing, flower gardening and the Williamsburg area. She and Bruce were active in the building of the new Saint Bede Catholic Church on Ironbound Road, Saint Andrew’s Society of Williamsburg and self-improvement. She graduated summa cum laude at Saint Leo University with a B.S. Degree in Accounting in 1984. Upon retirement from civil service in 1997, she was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal.
Inurnment will be held in the Columbarium at Saint Bede Catholic Church.
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