She was born on October 17, 1956 to Oscar and Clara Fernandez Cabrera. In her adolescence, she lived in Houston, TX, Guatemala City, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico. After college, she lived and worked in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area and Brownsville, TX, later returning home to Houston, TX. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Houston and a Masters in Hospital Administration from Texas Women’s University, and most recently, received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Houston-Downtown and was working towards attaining her CPA. She was the Clinical Manager at the UTHealth – School of Dentistry, OMS department for over ten years. She is a Breast Cancer and Multiple-Myeloma survivor and was currently fighting kidney disease and a second bout of Multiple Myeloma, but she never let her health battles dull her beautiful smile and graciously welcomed everyone she met. She fought such a brave battle until her body gave out.
She was an avid reader of John Grisham books and loved watching Cold Justice with her daughter. Carmen enjoyed traveling around the world with her family, and really loved planning out everything they would do on their adventures. She was a detail-oriented person and loved making lists of goals/dreams/wishes, obligations, and budgets for herself and anyone that asked. She loved numbers and remembered EVERYONE’s birthday. She looked forward to traveling to new places once she received a new kidney and her daughter graduated from law school. She had two special-needs rescue dogs that she loved and cared for, and would relax after a long week by tending to her garden and taking care of her plants.
She is survived by her daughter, Jaclyn Barbosa, her mother, Clara, her siblings, Patricia, Frank, his wife and children, and Marcella; her cousins, aunts, uncles, godsons, and many other relatives, friends and neighbors whose love and friendship she also carried in her heart. She joins her father, Oscar, in heaven. Special appreciation goes out to Willowbrook Methodist Hospital, Memorial Hermann Hospital, and MD Anderson Cancer Center that always took such great care of Carmen.
She is fondly remembered by her family and friends that love and miss her sooooo much.
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