Obituary:
Audrey Torrence Bachman, widow of Kenneth Leroy Bachman, Sr., died on June 20, 2010, at Sunrise Assisted Living in Reston, Virgina.
Mrs. Bachman was born in Hammond, Louisiana, on December 4, 1915, attended Southeastern Louisiana University and graduated with her B.A. (1937) and M.A. (1939) degrees from Louisiana State University, in English and American literature. She taught English at Hammond High School from 1939 to 1941.
After her marriage to Dr. Bachman she came to Northern Virginia where she spent many years in Annandale Virginia and then in Reston, Virginia.
Mrs. Bachman taught fourth grade at Annandale Elementary School in 1951 before leaving to accompany her husband to his post with the Marshall Plan in Paris, France from 1952 through 1954. Upon her return to Annandale she became a Charter Member of the Community Woman's Club of Annandale, Virginia and twice served as it president.
In 1967 she moved to Rome, Italy where her husband served as Director of Economics and Statistics of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. There she was active in the American Woman's Club of Rome, Santa Susanna Guild, in which she served as its president.
When she returned in 1975 to make her home in Reston, Virginia, she became active in the Cameron Parish Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and served as a docent at the DAR museum in Washington, D.C. She was active in bridge circles in Reston and has been a member of St. John Neumann Catholic Church, Reston, Virginia, since its beginning, where her funeral will be held at 11:30am on Thursday, June 14, with visitation beforehand beginning at 10:30am. She will be buried at Fairfax Memorial Cemetary alongside her husband.
She leaves many friends in the Washington, D.C. area and in Cocoa Beach, Florida where she and her husband had a winter home.
She is survived by her son Kenneth L. Bachman, Jr. and his wife Sherry A. Bachman of Bethesda, Maryland, two grandchildren Laura B. Moulton and Eric K. Bachman, their spouses Stuart Moulton and Meagan Bachman, and three great-grandchildren Anna Moulton, Hannah Bachman and Hope Bachman, all of Bethesda and Chevy Chase Maryland, as well as her sister Shirley T. Bardwell of Hammond, Louisiana.
Audrey Teresa Torrence 
