On April 19, 2011, Patricia Anne Holthaus (nee Hefner), beloved wife of the late Donald Martin Holthaus; loving mother of Michael Donald Holthaus and his wife Mary, MaryKay and Paula Lynn Holthaus and the late Bonita Ann Holthaus; dear sister of Jean Lange and her late husband Richard; Thelma Morgan and her husband Thomas; Ralph Hefner and his wife Ann and Carolyn Conway and her husband Larry; loving grandmother of Brandon David and Christina Michelle Holthaus and great-grandmother of Delainey Quinn Parker; Sister-in-law of Robert and Martha Holthaus and Tom and Sherry Holthaus. She is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews and her "adopted daughter" Stacy Venis.

Friends may call at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale) on Monday 3-5 & 7-9pm. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at the Church of the Annunciation on Tuesday, 12:30pm. Interment Parkwood Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation 10400 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 270, Columbia, MD 21044.