Mary E. McCabe, a homemaker and volunteer, died of complications from pneumonia Tuesday at Roland Park Place. She was 99.
The daughter of John Walbach Edelen Sr., who purchased Stebbins Anderson Co. and the Enterprise Fuel Co. in 1926, and Francis deChantal Boggs Edelen, a homemaker, Mary Edelen was born in Baltimore and spent her early years in Roland Park.
When she was a teenager, she moved with her family to Bella Vista, the Glen Arm farm that had once been owned by Charles Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, and his wife, Betsy Patterson.
When she moved to the farm in the 1920s, its name had been changed to The Homestead.
She was a 1933 graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School and attended what is now Notre Dame of Maryland University.
During World War II, she worked at Bendix Radio Corp. on East Joppa Road in Towson and was also a volunteer enemy aircraft spotter.
In 1943, she married James Gordon McCabe, an attorney and a Maryland National Bank trust officer. He died in 1994.
The couple lived in Gaywood and later moved to a home on Keswick Road in Roland Park. In 1995, she moved to Elkridge Estates, where she lived until moving to Roland Park Place in 2001.
Mrs. McCabe was a longtime volunteer with Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland. She was a communicant of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Mary Our Queen for 56 years, where she also served as a volunteer.
She enjoyed dancing and parties and was an ardent Orioles fan. She also enjoyed spending summer vacations in Rehoboth Beach, Del., and winters in the Virgin Islands.
She was a former member of the Johns Hopkins Club and the Roland Park Pool.
Plans for services are incomplete.
Mrs. McCabe is survived by her son, Calvert Cornelius "Neil" McCabe of Roland Park; two daughters, Frances Edelen McWilliams of Roland Park and Rosalie McCabe Jamrosz of Federal Hill; a sister, Rosalie Kelley of Atlanta; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Another son, James Gordon McCabe Jr., died in 1952.