Rebecca Lerch, a homemaker and longtime choir director at Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Baltimore, died of pancreatic cancer Monday at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson. She was 94.
Born Rebecca Clarissa Helms in Bethlehem, Pa., she was a 1932 graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio.
She became a music teacher at an elementary school in Pelham, N.Y., then taught at a middle school in Elkins Park, Pa.
She met her husband, Brooke W. Lerch, an engineering manager at the old Western Electric plant at Point Breeze in Baltimore, at a ball at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where her brother was a student, said her daughter, Sally Dausch of Baldwin.