Jane S. Cabes

The daughter of Mary Ann and Jack Shickich, Jane was born on the 7th of March 1965 and was raised in Wyoming. After graduating with a degree in finance from San Diego State University, she worked in New York and Houston before retiring as a Senior Vice President with Prudential Securities in 2001. In February of 2000, Jane married her loving husband of twenty-two years, Robert Louis Cabes, Jr., and together they raised three wonderful children, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, and Trey.

Jane volunteered her time to support a number of organizations whose missions aligned with her dedication to faith, family, and friends, including the Junior League of New York and Houston and Catholic Charities. Jane particularly enjoyed volunteering in her children’s schools and at Small Steps Nurturing Center, where she served on the Board for seven years. Jane was also an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. More recently, Jane and her family founded Jane’s Joyride a platform to promote the education, awareness, and research for long-term healthy living, incorporating one’s mind, body, and soul.

Jane was an avid traveler and enjoyed planning exciting family trips to various countries. Jane created wonderful family memories for not only her own family, but also for her sisters and their families through their travels together.

Jane fought cancer in the same way she lived her life, with resounding faith, strength, courage, and humor. Her compassion for others never wavered. During her battle she made it her mission to be informed of innovative treatments in research, nutrition, and lifestyle to help others who were also fighting the disease.

Jane is preceded in death by her parents, Mary Ann and Jack Shickich. She is survived by her loving husband, Robert, and their three children, Mary Ann, Elizabeth and Trey of Houston; her sisters and brothers-in-law, Ellen and Gerald Cromack of New York, New York, Ann and Tad Herz of Denver, Colorado, and her brother-in-law Richard Cabes and his wife Corrie of Abilene, Texas. She is also survived by her nieces, Elizabeth and Charlotte Cromack and Olivia Cabes, and nephews, James and Ryan Herz, Harry Cromack, and Clay Cabes. Extended surviving family members include her uncle, David Graves of Knoxville, Tennessee, her aunt, Lois Shickich of Casper, Wyoming, and mother and father-in-law Blair and Robert Cabes, Sr. of Lafayette, Louisiana.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six until eight o’clock in the evening on Tuesday, the 20th of December, in the grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston, where a recitation of the holy rosary will commence in the adjacent Jasek Chapel at five o’clock.

A Mass of Christian Burial is to be offered at two o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, the 21st of December, at St. Anne Catholic Church, 2140 Westheimer Road in Houston.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions in her name be directed to the MD Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486, Houston, TX, 77210-4486, designating gifts to: Jane’s Joyride Fund.

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