Jenny McCabe is the deceased Daughter of Bill and Dympna Mccabe (also killed in the same incdent) and sister of Kevin, Jamey, Catherine and Alan McCabe.
Most of you who knew Jenny will want to start by acknowledging her death and how it happened. She was killed in an auto accident in early December of 1978. The family including Bill, Dympna, Jamey, Jenny, Catherine and Alan were traveling from Los Alamos to Albuquerque for a Christmas shopping trip. Her brother Jamey was driving their 1957 Chevy Suburban with Dympna and Jenny also in teh front seat. No one was wearing seatbelts. A drunk driver traveling at excessive sppeds and rear ended the vehicle causing it to swerve into the median and rollover. The doors came off the vehicle and ll were tossed form the Suburban as it rolled except for Alan who was trapped in the rear of the vehicle. Jenyn and Dympna died at the scene, the other 4 were taken by Ambulance to Albuquerque hospitals. Bill and Catherine spent a number of weeks in the Hospital and Alan and Jamey were released that night. Ron and Carla Fugazzi cared for Jamey and Alan and then Mick and Josette McCabe came and took Alan and Jamey to Denver to spend Christmas with the family there until January when Bill and Catherine got out of the hospital. Friends and family all found it to be a very difficult time.
Celebrating Jenny's life seems much more appropriate however than acknowledging her death. Jenny was the 3rd of 5 children in the McCabe family. She was very even tempered and loving. Jenny had many firends but her first and one of her best frineds on our block (Jeffrey Place in White Rock NM) was Lisa Kosty. Lisa and Jenny were constantly found together at least for a while there. Jamey and Jenny as Brother and Sister only 2 years apart also had a mostly good relationship. Jamey could be cruel to his sister but she taught him better manners and humility. Jenny and Catherine were also 2 years apart and as sisters had a very close relationship.
If you have some other memories of Jenny and or some facts about her life to share please put log them in comments below or e-mail to jamey@ameritech.net.