Anna A. Stambaugh, former president of a Baltimore County waste removal company, died Tuesday at St. Joseph Medical Center of undetermined causes. The longtime Lutherville resident was 93.

Born and raised in Govans, the former Anna Amelia Soth married Edward Clay Stambaugh Sr. in 1931. Mr. Stambaugh worked as a coal machine operator in Western Maryland and Virginia in the 1930s and early 1940s, and the couple moved around between Frostburg, Cumberland and Norfolk, Va.

They returned to the Baltimore area in the mid-1940s, raising their three children in what's now known as the Nottingham section of Baltimore County, according to her son, Edward Clay Stambaugh Jr. of Lutherville. Mrs. Stambaugh and her husband moved in 1967 to Lutherville, where she lived before moving to the nearby College Manor nursing home about two years ago.

Mr. Stambaugh started a variety of businesses upon the couple's return to Baltimore, before founding Clay Stambaugh Refuse Service in the late 1950s, said Mrs. Stambaugh's grandson, Andrew Stambaugh of Lutherville.

"My mom was always there, always involved in the business," said Edward Clay Stambaugh Jr. "She was busy all the time."

When her husband died in 1984, she took over as president of the company and remained active in the daily operations until the late 1990s, said her son, who succeeded his mother as president of the company and oversees its approximately dozen trucks.

The company now picks up residential trash from areas including Towson, Parkville, Lutherville and Loch Raven, Andrew Stambaugh said.

"She was really dedicated to my grandfather and to all of the family," Andrew Stambaugh said.

Services are planned for tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, 6500 York Road.

In addition to her son and grandson, survivors include two daughters, Marlene Anderson of Parkville and Claylene Warfield of Deland, Fla.; two sisters, Helen Gardner of Parkville and Virginia Schumaker of Florida; seven other grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.