Helen Clara Clohan, 87, of Ashby Ponds, Ashburn, VA passed away on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at her home .

Born April 28, 1925 in Weidhofen, Austria, she was the daughter of the late Georg and Maria Grabenschweiger Steinbach.

In addition to her parents she was also predeceased by her brother Friedel Steinbach and her beloved sister, Hermine (Mini) Steinbach Kornherr (husband Otto) .

She and her family moved to the United States and she was educated at Chicago, IL.

She and her husband lived briefly in Martinsburg with her late mother-in-law, Pauline (Speck) Clohan and after that at Silver Spring, MD and then McLean, VA.

She will be dearly missed by her husband, Paul Speck Clohan, Sr.; children, Paul S. Clohan, Jr. (wife, Pat) and Gary Clohan (wife, Chris Olsen); grandchildren, Tracy Katherine Clohan, hristopher Paul Clohan, Daley Clohan, and Mitchell Alexander (Mac) Clohan; great-grandchild, Ashleigh Nichole Brown; two great-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews, Walter Kornherr, Guinthilde (Kornherr) Sopjer, and Ulrike (Kornherr) Baltzer; and grandnieces and nephews, Bern Kornherr, Nina Kornherr, Martin Sojer, Miriam Baltzer, and Martina Baltzer.

Helen was homemaker, an adventurous cook and superb gardener. She loved bridge and snow skiing in the western US and Canada. She enjoyed traveling and made friends everywhere she went, and she loved visiting her family abroad. She was intellectual up to her time of passing and before her recent illness enjoyed attending concerts, plays and all the various museums in the Washington DC area.

Interment prayers will be said on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 11:00AM at Pleasant View Memory Gardens, Martinsburg, WV

Memorial services will be held at Ashley Ponds in Ashburn, VA at a later date.

Arrangements by Brown Funeral Home.