Marie Hirst Yochim

1920–2012

Champion of the DAR

A 12th generation Virginian and a 10th generation member of the Falls Church community, beginning with ancestors in the area of Big Chimneys, the site of the first settlement in Falls Church in 1699.

35th President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and serving as its Centennial President (1989–1992).

Joined the Falls Church Chapter of the DAR in 1953 and led the Virginia DAR as the State Regent.

Long-time champion of DAR Schools, helping children in remote mountain areas receive an education.

Instrumental in the restoration of the historic Cherry Hill Farmhouse for the City's Bicentennial project in 1976, coordinating DAR resources to provide beautiful period furnishings appropriate to the 1850s period and a boxwood garden in Cherry Hill Park.

A George Washington Fellow, a major contributor to the Center for Advancing American Heritage, and a member of The Jamestowne Society, as she was descended from one of its first settlers, James Thurgood.

Descended from Virginia Declaration of Rights author George Mason.