Fred Limbach passed away peacefully the morning of February 20, after a long illness. Fred was

an accomplished artist and photographer. He loved life, his friends and family and the

wonderful dogs that kept him smiling. He traveled, with wife Mimi, throughout the U.S. and in

Europe. She often gasped as he wound their rental car through narrow and sometimes

treacherous roads in France, Italy and Ireland. (He did the driving because Mimi couldn’t drive a

standard shift.) Together, they fulfilled a “bucket list” goal of visiting the four capitals of the old

Austro-Hungarian Empire – Zagreb (now in Croatia), Vienna, Prague and Budapest. Glorious. He

fell in love with Vienna, returning there many times. During those trips, he savored the local

food and wine. At home, he dearly loved his chardonnay!

Fred was born July 5, 1947, in Pittsburgh, a city that he loved. He grew up in the suburban

North Hills and graduated from North Allegheny High School. As a boy, he took art classes at

what was then Carnegie Institute of Technology. He formed lifelong friendships there. He

graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in industrial design. He ran the

interior contracting company, Limbach & Limbach, and then moved into consulting. Eventually,

after a move to Washington, D.C., he made art his career, focusing on abstract paintings and

fine art photography. As a painter, his work was heavily influenced by the Washington Color

School along with the works of Richard Diebenkorn. Fred’s works were shown at the Museum

of Contemporary Art DC and the Willow Street Gallery.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Mimi (Mary Elizabeth) Holland Limbach, his sister and

brother-in-law, Ann Holland Baglier and Dennis Baglier, and his sister-in-law Ellen Holland

Walker. He is also survived by his beloved nieces and nephews: Jane Walker Blake (Tommy),

Camp Walker (Michelle) and Holly Walker (Steven Josephs); and by his seven great nieces and

nephews: Hollis, Hank and Webster Blake; William and Davis Walker; and Jane and Edith

Josephs as well as his spiritual sister, Camille Hazeur and his beloved cousin and fellow wine

aficionado Billy Baker. His parents, Mary Motil Limbach and Fred J. Limbach, Jr. pre-deceased

him many years ago.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in

Washington, D.C. In lieu of flowers, his family suggests memorial contributions to the Heart and

Vascular Institute at Washington Hospital Center

https://giving.medstarhealth.org/medstarhealth/get-involved/donate/limbach and St. Columba’s

Episcopal Church https://onrealm.org/columba/-/form/give

Fred’s family is forever grateful to the amazing doctors and nurses from the Washington

Hospital Center Advanced Heart Failure Group, who saved his life and kept him going

throughout his heart failure journey, to his dear caregiver, Sonja Ford of Rite at Home, and to

the wonderful AccentCare Hospice nurses Jestina Pardea and Shaun MacMillan.