Mary Louise Schoeberlein, a homemaker active in Scouting who was also a bookkeeper, died in her sleep Saturday at her Catonsville home. She was 90.

Born Mary Louise Kendrick in Mobile, Ala., she moved to Baltimore in the early 1940s and worked during World War II as a Red Cross nurse's aide at Union Memorial Hospital. In her later life, she was a jeweler's bookkeeper in downtown Baltimore.

Active in boys and girls Scouting, she led her dens in numerous Catonsville Fourth of July parades. She also chaired the Cub Scout father-son banquet at St. Timothy's Church and chaperoned a trip of 12 Scouts to New York in the 1950s.

She was also Girl Scout leader, a district chairwoman, and she chaired an early Girl Scout cookie sale.

She was active in the Catonsville Elementary, Junior High and Senior High PTAs.

She was a longtime member of Christ Lutheran Church, at 701 S. Charles St. She chaired several mother-daughter banquets, once made 60 children's choir and 30 acolyte robes and served on the church and Lutheran Church Women boards.

She also volunteered at what had been the John Deaton Medical Center and at the Maryland Science Center. She was a member of the Catonsville Women's Club and was the club treasurer. She chaired committees and worked at its Swap Shop. She also initiated a series of four Catonsville T-shirts.

She was a seamstress and cook and solved crossword puzzles. She also traveled widely.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Our Lady of the Angels Chapel, Charlestown Retirement Community, 706 Maiden Choice Lane in Catonsville, where she was a longtime resident.

Survivors include a son, C. Richards Steinbock of Annapolis; two daughters, Karen L. Nedzel of Rolling Meadows, Ill., and Joanne Schoeberlein of Westminster; and three grandsons. Her first husband, Charles Steinbock Jr., died in 1971. Her second husband, William E. Schoeberlein, died in 1995.