Arline Stephanyne Bleier died on Feb. 2. She was 88.
Ms. Bleier was born in Trenton, N.J., on Sept. 15, 1936, and was the only child of Stephen J. and Dorothy McElroy Bleier. Her family moved to Knoxville when her father went to work for Rohm and Haas Co.
She was a member of the Knoxville Catholic High School class of 1954 and graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1958 with a degree in business administration. While at UT, she was a member of Sigma Kappa sorority where she met her lifelong best friend, Judith Bidwell Lukowski.
For more than 30 years, Ms. Bleier lived in Connecticut and worked in New York City as an executive assistant. Her time in the city influenced her taste for fine things, including her favorite Jo Malone perfume, which she loved buying and gifting to friends. Her most prized possessions were her Masters Tournament badges, which allowed her to attend the Augusta professional golf event with her parents and friends for more than 50 years. She was an avid member of Arnie’s Army and was proud to mention that she took lessons from professional golf legend Arnold Palmer. We suspect that Ms. Bleier’s heaven will be in Amen Corner playing golf for eternity.
Ms. Bleier was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her aunt, JoAnne Hitchliffe; cousins, Karen Hitchliffe of Burlington, N.J., John Maternack of Fernandina Beach, Fla., Donald Kratz of Indianapolis, and Deborah Murran of Trenton, N.J. She also was survived by special friends the Joe Lukowski and Sam MacDonald families.
Family and friends gathered in her memory at the noon Mass at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on Feb. 12, with a luncheon that followed in the cathedral parish Shea Room. Ms. Bleier was to be buried with her parents at St. Mark’s Cemetery in Bristol, Penn.