Warren Maurice Jacobs

Warren grew up with a passion for both football and music, but was remembered by his mother as having had a desire to be a doctor from early boyhood. For Warren, music remained a life long love, playing the trumpet in high school in the New Orleans French Quarter with Fats Pichau, and playing with the Baylor Brass and Denton Cooley's band, the Heartbeats. Late in life, Warren took up the piano and took great joy in playing a trumpet duet with his granddaughter, Chloe.

Warren followed his father’s footsteps at Tulane medical school and also specialized in OB GYN, delivering his first baby in 1940 as a medical student attending an indigent patient at her home while coached over the phone by his father. In 1943, Warren entered the army as a second Lieutenant and served in the 69th infantry as a front line medical officer leading nineteen year old medics to attend the wounded within 100 yards of the enemy. Service with the 69'th took him through Belgium as the 69'th participated in breaking through to Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, liberating the concentration camp at Nordhausen and meeting the Russians at the Elbe River. For service under fire, he received the Bronze Star.

Following the war, Warren completed an OB GYN residency at Charity Hospital and married Louise Schwartz, who was attending Sophie Newcomb. After the birth of their first son, Mark, the two moved to Houston where Warren set up a private practice in OB GYN and joined the faculty at Baylor Medical School, where he rose to full professor, was awarded teacher of the year on two occasions, and taught generations of medical students and residents.

In 1961, he and his partner of five years, Dr. Stanley Rogers, were joined by Dr. Morton Adels and formed Obstetrical and Gynecologic Associates, which over the next nearly 50 years became one of the largest single specialty OB GYN groups in the country. In 1976, Warren was instrumental in building the Women's Hospital of Texas and acted as its first President of Medical Staff. He retired from private practice at age 83 but continued to assist and train other doctors in gynecologic surgery through his 85th year.

Upon his retirement and to honor and commemorate his many years of medical practice, his sons endowed a chair at Tulane Medical School in the name of Warren and his father. He was a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Surgeons, Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Fertility Society, and Houston OB GYN Society.

Warren was an active sportsman his entire life, enjoying water-skiing, golf and tennis, in addition to his over 40-year daily exercise regimen at various health clubs in Houston. Warren particularly enjoyed practicing medicine with his son Mark and playing golf on Sunday with his sons Larry and Stephen.

Shortly after his 90th birthday, he was diagnosed with lymphoma and ultimately succumbed to his disease, dying at home surrounded by his family.

Warren is survived by his wife of 62 years, Louise; his sons, Mark, Larry and Stephen Jacobs; his daughters-in-laws, Julie, Lorraine, and Linda Jacobs; his grandchildren, Kristin, Chloe, Catherine, Jacqueline, and Scott Jacobs; and family member, Marie Thomas.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o’clock in the afternoon until eight o’clock in the evening on Sunday, the 12th of September, in the Library and Grand Foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

A private service, for family members only, is to be conducted as well.

In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed to the Warren and Adolph Jacobs Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tulane University School of Medicine, Attn: Institutional Advancement Office, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA, 70112; or to the charity of one’s choice.