Dorothy Ann McCabe Kueber passed away on December 3, 2022 after a two year decline following a fall in 2020. She was born April 30, 1934 in New Orleans, the daughter of Charles John McCabe and Dorothy Ann Frilot. She lived her entire life in New Orleans. She grew up on Vincennes Place and attended Ursuline Academy from 2nd through 12th grades, graduating in 1951.
She enrolled in Tulane School of Architecture and graduated with a Master of Architecture degree in 1956. While at Tulane she was a member of Phi Mu sorority. After graduation she worked for George Leake’s architecture firm, where she practiced until the late 1960s. In her work she had particularly fond memories of her work on the restoration of Rosedown Plantation and one of the restoration projects of the Old Louisiana Capitol building.
In February 1965, she married Garril Louis Kueber in St Louis Cathedral. They lived in the French Quarter for a year and a half before moving to the Uptown Triangle neighborhood of New Orleans.
Mrs. Kueber was involved in numerous volunteer activities throughout her life, including the Louisiana Crafts Council, Friends of the Cabildo, Preservation Resource Center, Uptown Triangle Neighborhood Association, and others. For the Friends of the Cabildo she was an enthusiastic tour guide of the French Quarter for over twenty-five years. For the Preservation Resource Center she served several years on the Preservation Easements Committee. She helped organize the Uptown Triangle Neighborhood Association. She studied French well into her 80s with a French study group.
She loved travel, and she and her husband traveled throughout the world over their decades together. She was also passionate about the city of New Orleans, good food, saving trees, and historic preservation. She was a talented visual artist.
She is survived by Gary Kueber, her husband of 57 years, her son Gary Kueber, daughter-in-law Carson Harkrader, and grandson Emmett Kueber.
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