Corinne K. Long, caterer

Corinne K. Long, a former partner in a Baltimore catering firm and volunteer, died April 14 in her sleep at her Roland Park home. She was 89.

The daughter of Eugene Kohlhepp, a salesman for William Deitches & Co., a Baltimore tobacco distributorship, and Hilda Kohlhepp, a homemaker, the former Corinne Kohlhepp was born in Baltimore and raised in Homeland.

She was a 1940 graduate of Girls’ Latin School and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1944 from Edgewood Park College in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.

In 1944, she married Raymond Gordon Long Sr., who was better known as R. Gordon “Shorty” Long, and settled in Roland Park.

In 1962, Mrs. Long and her longtime friend, Kate C. Chitttenden, who died earlier this month, established a catering firm they named RSVP, and in addition to catering parties, weddings and debutante parties, they made and bottled chutneys and jellies that they sold in a store in the Roland Park Shopping Center.

They also were the corporate caterer for the old Alex. Brown & Sons, the Baltimore financial brokerage. They also staged events at the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the B&O Railroad Museum.

The two women closed the business in 1992, said Mrs. Long’s son, R. Gordon Long Jr. of Monkton. Mrs. Long tutored students at Roland Park Elementary School and was an active member of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.

She was a member of the Baltimore Country Club and the Ivy Garden Club. She enjoyed playing bridge, tennis, bowling, golf and riding her bike on Charles Street. She also liked to travel.

Her husband, who was a Bethlehem Steel Corp. industrial engineer, died in 1984.

A memorial service for Mrs. Long will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the chapel of her church at 5603 N. Charles St.

In addition to her son, she is survived by a daughter, Melissa Cochran Long of Hilton Head, S.C.; and two grandchildren.