Loretta L. Stachowski, chief cook at a Canton nursing home, died Tuesday at FutureCare Canton Harbor of cancer. She was 75.
The daughter of Edward Parker, a Bethlehem Steel worker, and Florence Williams Parker, a homemaker, Loretta Lee Parker was born in Baltimore and raised on South Kenwood Avenue.
She was a 1957 graduate of Patterson Park High School and the next year married Richard J. Stachowski Sr., who worked at the General Motors Co. plant on Broening Highway.
A lifelong Canton resident, Mrs. Stachowski worked for more than 20 years as chief cook at FutureCare Canton Harbor until retiring in 2012. She was a "self-taught cook and baker," said her sister, Florence Stachowski of Dundalk.
Mrs. Stachowski enjoyed shopping and having lunch with her sister. She also liked cooking and baking and entertaining family and friends.
"Her No. 1 hobby was her family," her sister said.
Mrs. Stachowski was a communicant of St. Brigid Roman Catholic Church.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Kaczorowski Funeral Home, 1201 Dundalk Ave.
In addition to her husband of 57 years and her sister, Mrs. Stachowski is survived by two sons, Richard J. Stachowski Jr. of Baltimore and David J. Stachowski of Rosedale; a brother, William Parker of Dundalk; another sister, Linda Donald of Essex; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Another son, Jeffrey Scott Stachowski, died in 1990.