Thelma Jean McCabe, 88, died Monday, May 17, 2021, at her residence.
She was born April 23, 1933, in Canonsburg, Pa., a daughter of the late Earl B. Smyth and Mary Alice Cannon Maxwell.
Mrs. McCabe formerly worked at Davis & Lynch Glass Co. and the Monongalia County Board of Education as a cook. She attended the Jakes Run Assembly of God.
Surviving are five daughters and their spouses, Patricia Statler and her husband Ronald, of Core, Debra Tennant and her husband Marvin, of Lostine, Ore., Alice Rice and her husband Gene, of Fairmont, Sharon Moore and her husband Kenneth, of Fairview, and Kim Rose and her husband Don, of Core; one half sister, Leora Boggs, of Morgantown; nine grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth D. McCabe; one sister, Jenny Smyth; two half brothers, Billy Maxwell and Chucky Maxwell; and three grandchildren, Melissa Parrish Madagan, Rachel Tennant and Jeremy Moore.
Friends may call at the Owen-Neely Funeral Home, 5894 Mason-Dixon Highway, Blacksville, WV, from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m., Wednesday. Funeral services will be held in the funeral home, at 11 a.m., Thursday, with Pastor Rob Bennett officiating. Interment will follow in the Olive Cemetery at Pentress.
The family would like to thank Morgantown Hospice and Pastor Rob Bennett for the love, care and compassion shown to Jean and her family during her illness.
