Regula Fybel; Secretary, Aide to Architect Richard Neutra

Regula Thorston Fybel, executive secretary and aide to her late brother-in-law, famed architect Richard Neutra, and a resident of his highly publicized three-family house in Hollywood, has died. She was 86.

Mrs. Fybel died Oct. 22 in Los Angeles after a stroke, said her nephew, Raymond Neutra of Berkeley.

Born in Switzerland, Mrs. Fybel was trained in Paris as a nurse.

She immigrated to the United States in the late 1920s and took up residence with Neutra and his wife, Dione, an author, who was her sister. The three-family house, sometimes called the Schindler House for the original residents, was built on Kings Road in Hollywood in the 1920s.

During World War II, Mrs. Fybel became a captain in the Army, heading a field hospital during the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, she supervised a “baby train” to transport and educate war brides with infants traveling from Germany to the coast of France and then to the United States on troop ships.

Mrs. Fybel is survived by her husband, Hans Fybel, and five nephews and one niece.