Catherine Zarbos, a retired waitress, died of pneumonia complications Saturday at the Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation Center. The former Edgemere resident was 93.

Born Catherine Zarbs in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown, she attended Baltimore City public schools and earned her GED diploma at the age of 60. She learned cooking while her father, a Greek immigrant, owned and operated a restaurant at Sandy Point near the Bay Bridge.

Many years ago she worked at the Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River and later was a waitress at the Cork and Bottle restaurant on Fayette Street.

"She was an excellent cook and passed her love for cooking on to her children," said her daughter-in-law, Carol Zarbos of Bel Air. "She lived independently and loved it when friends complimented her apartment."

Her marriage to Louis Schrack ended in divorce. She then adopted the name Zarbos, a variant of her maiden name.

Services will be held at 3:30 p.m. today at Schimunek Funeral Home, 610 W. MacPhail Road in Bel Air.

Survivors include three sons, Louis Zarbos of Dundalk, Joseph Schrack of Cockeysville and Allan Zarbos of Bel Air; a daughter, Marian Zarbos of Capon Springs, W.Va.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.