Thomas C. McCabe, age 80
of New Hampton, died Wednesday afternoon April 30, 2008,
at Mercy Medical Center in New Hampton.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30 a.m.
Saturday, May 3, 2008, at Holy Family Parish-St.
Mary’s Center, New Hampton with Msgr. Carl Schmitt
celebrating the Mass. Organist will be Ann Bennett
with Karen Schwickerath joining the Holy Family
Resurrection Choir as cantor. The pall will be placed by
Barb and their five children. Lector for the
service will be Frank Eason. Presenting the
offertory gifts will be daughters Maureen Valley and
Colleen Lightfoot. Louise Harris and Bill Boyd
will serve as eucharistic ministers.
Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, New
Hampton with LeRoy Larson, Don Kubesh, Tom Sauser, Marty
O’Connell, Paul Swenson & Merle Schwickerath as
pallbearers. Military honors will be conducted by the
New Hampton American Legion Post #38 and VFW Post #5238.
Honorary pallbearers are Don and LaVonne Johnson, Ray
and Joan Ball, Wallace and Darlene Ernst and Wally and
Glennda Murphy.
Friends may call 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. Friday at Hugeback
& Chenoweth Funeral Home in New Hampton. Scripture
Service will be at 6:00 p.m. Friday evening. Visitation
continues 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Saturday morning at the funeral
home.
If so desired, memorials may be made to Mercy Medical
Center in New Hampton.
Thomas C. McCabe was born December 28, 1927, in Storm
Lake, IA, the son of Albert and Ellen (Murray) McCabe.
He received his education at St. Mary’s Grade School
and High School in Storm Lake graduating in 1945. Tom
enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 25, 1946, and was
honorably discharged as a Private First Class on
December 14, 1947. He then attended Buena Vista College
earning a Bachelors of Science degree followed by Drake
University where he received his administrators
certificate.
On August 1, 1959, in Breda, IA, he married Barbara
Knobbe. To this union five children were born. The
couple lived briefly in Payton,
IA, where Tom was a teacher in the public school. In
1960, the couple moved to New Hampton where he taught
Jr. High math until retiring in 1989. He had also been a
Jr. High coach of football, track, basketball and also
the girls high school softball coach. He enjoyed
gardening, bowling, fishing, hunting, visiting with friends and
relatives, and especially enjoyed walking his dogs,
Tassie and Molly.
Tom is survived by his wife, Barbara; two sons, Chris
McCabe of Mason City and Maurice McCabe of Owatonna, MN;
three daughters, Maureen Valley of Leslie, MO, Margaret
McCabe of Lansing, MI and Colleen Lightfoot of Killeen,
TX; two grandchildren, Brittany Lightfoot and
Bernard Lightfoot Jr.; one sister, Donna Kelly of Corydon,
IA; one brother, Daniel McCabe of Plano, TX.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his twin
sister, Theresa Bunting; four brothers, Maurice, Murray,
Francis and Richard McCabe.
