Olivia (Ollie) Ann Herzan Doherty concluded her journey and joined her husband Dennis, on the 10th of January 2025.  Along her magnificent journey, she was a fantastic daughter, a wonderful friend and a spectacular mom and grandmother.

While excelling at all of her opportunities, her first and most significant role was wife and partner.  However, not just a wife, but a Navy wife who earnestly supported her husband’s career and obligations without a hint of reservation.  As a young wife and mother, she steadfastly held the family fortunes as Dad was deployed around the world, and specifically his year in Vietnam.

As our father transitioned to civilian life, our mom continued to bulwark against the many changes that dad’s career offered.  Whether it was Rhode Island, Minnesota or Texas, Ollie held down the fort to afford dad the freedom to find the best and most satisfying career moves.  Mom did get a say on her final residence in Tennessee, finding in Fairfield Glade a wonderful and restful life that being a wife and mother to three boys she most assuredly deserved.  When she had free time, she loved to feed the birds, battle the squirrels, watch the deer, maintain a garden, read books and keep law enforcement on their toes as the little gray-haired lady drove past at high speeds.

Despite the loss of her husband, Ollie stayed active in the Glade and in the St Francis Church communities which kept her busy and motivated.  A role she maintained into the fall of 2024.

Ollie will be missed by her sons, Stephen (Pom), Mark(Deborah) and Timothy, four granddaughters, and seven great-grandchildren, her nephews, the ladies of the Council of Catholic Women, and the remaining members of the Naval Academy’s Class of 1963 Alumni Association, especially the members of the Terrible Tenth Company.

Olivia will be celebrated on February 20th, 2025 at 10 am at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Fairfield Glade, TN.  While she sits next to Dennis and all of our ancestors, her remains will be inurned with her husband at the Naval Academy, Annapolis MD later this year.