45-year Club Member Ann Valuchek Dies

Ann Valuchek, a 45-year member of the National Pres Club and long-time resident of the Washington area, died Dec. 19 at a nursing home in Rockville, Maryland, where she had lived since 2013. She was 91.

Mrs. Valuchek was born in Cohasset, Virginia, and grew up in Ocala, Florida. She moved to Washington to work for the federal government during World War II and met her first husband, Carl Bauersfeld, a lawyer in the Navy. After their divorce she worked at the Library of Congress and met and married Andrew Valuchek, former publisher of foreign language newspapers in New York, a liaison for foreign visitors with the Democratic National Committee, and a member of the NPC until his death in 1997.

"My mother was a very social person," said her son, Carl Bauersfeld of Fairfax, Virginia. "She loved going to the Press Club for taco night." Carl, a car race fan, recalled being his mother's guest at NPC luncheons featuring NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson. Mrs. Valuchek is also survived by a daughter, Becky.