Agnes Jochim

Agnes Jochim

Agnes Kathrine (Zeltinger) Jochim, 93, a former teacher and Inverness area farm wife, who enjoyed gardening, cooking, reading and crafting, died of natural causes on Good Friday, at the Liberty Medical Center in Chester.

Vigil prayers will be 7 p. m. Tuesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Inverness.

Her funeral Mass will be 11 a. m. Wednesday, at Sacred Heart. Following burial at the Inverness Cemetery, a reception will be held at the church. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester.

Surviving are her five children, Larry Jochim of Somers, Thomas Jochim of Spokane, Wash., Deanna Beaudoin of Spokane, Wash., Marcus Jochim of Inverness and Marlene Biondo of Wyoming, Minn. ; her sister, Hazel Jochim of Hingham; 14 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Martin Jochim, in 2001.