Mary Clare Joyce Kosch, 88 of Bethesda, Maryland died Thursday, May 24, 2018. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 2, 2018 at St. Josaphat’s Catholic Church in Loup City. Celebrating the Mass will be Father Richard Piontkowski. Burial will be held at the Evergreen Cemetery in Loup City. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 2 at the church. Memorials are suggested to the St. Thomas Moore Academy in Middletown, Maryland or the Connelly School of the Holy Child in Potomac, Maryland.

She is survived by her daughter Mary Hopkins (Charles) and her son John Kosch (Veronica); sister of Bernita Joyce of Bethesda, Maryland and the late Catherine Rerucha of Hilton Head, South Carolina.  Also survived by five grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Richard Kosch of Bethesda, Maryland.