When Howard Harold McCabe was born on 15 December 1927, in Cortez, Montezuma, Colorado, United States, his father, John Archibald McCabe, was 35 and his mother, Augusta Elizabeth Lupke, was 25. He married Janet Caryl Brown on 1 January 1951, in Mancos, Montezuma, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Montezuma, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Cortés, Honduras in 2002. He died on 3 April 2002, in Cortez, Montezuma, Colorado, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Cortez Cemetery, Cortez, Montezuma, Colorado, United States.