Antoinette Louise "Weezie" Koch, longtime bookkeeper for a southeastern Baltimore County florist, died Monday of breast cancer at her Dundalk home. She was 75.
Antoinette Louise Komornik, the daughter of a steelworker and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on Vesper Avenue in Dundalk. She was a 1953 graduate of Dundalk High School.
For the past 26 years, Mrs. Koch — who preferred to use A. Louise Koch — had owned and operated Dundalk Florist with her husband of 55 years, August H. "Augie" Koch Jr.
Mrs. Koch was bookkeeper for the fourth-generation-owned business that her husband's family founded in 1910.
The longtime German Hill Road resident had not retired at her death.
Mrs. Koch was an active member of the Dundalk Rotary Inner Wheel and Woman's Club of Dundalk and was an honorary member of the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce.
She was an accomplished cross-stitcher.
Services will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday at Duda-Ruck Funeral Home, 7922 Wise Ave.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Koch is survived by a son, August H. Koch III of Dundalk; four daughters, Dawn V. Kuhnert and V. Lynn Hershner, both of Dundalk, Cindy L. Morrison of Forest Hill and Mary McWilliams of Abingdon; two brothers, Philip Komornik of Laurel and Stephen Komornik of Fort Mills, S.C.; two sisters, Dorothy Heinlein of Mardela Springs and Joan O'Bara of Dundalk; nine grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.