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Pablo Cavazos Jimenez passed away on February 2, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas. He was born on September 5, 1932, in Crystal City, Texas to Enrique and Ebarista Cavazos Jimenez. Pablo grew up in Cotulla, Texas while his parents built and successfully grew their family and their rural ranch and neighborhood grocery store. After he graduated from Cotulla High School, he went to California to attend a Trade Institute for Arts and Engineering. However, he was immediately drafted into the Army! He notified and submitted his draft letter to his school’s director. He went back home to Cotulla and was sent off to the Army. While in Basic Training he and only a few other basic trainees were selected to go to an airbase undisclosed to them. They boarded a train, traveled far north, and later discovered they were in North Dakota. These soldiers were not told where there they were headed. They Were Dutifully Following Orders! He and his group were assigned to those underground missile silos that had just been built to aid in the Korean Conflict. It was very secretive. They had been ordered to maintain secrets as dutiful soldiers. Pablo was very proud and after many years he ultimately did tell us family members and revealed what he was privileged to observe. He did not get sent to the front and was lucky to have been spared combat duty and the cruelties of war. The secret he held was that he got stationed to a brand-new facility in 1953 to a Strategic Air Command site to what is now known as The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South and North Dakota. These brand-new missile silos in North Dakota were the beginnings of what have become to be known as the 1000 Minuteman ICB missile sites created for later use for the Cold War of the 1960’s. Soon within his stint of less than two years the “war’ was over. When he came home, he met his beautiful wife to be, Mary, while taking his mother to visit her friend and former neighbor in Crystal City, Texas. They fell in love and married on November 27, 1955. As a married couple they lived in Crystal City for a few months then moved to Pearsall, Texas and began their lives together. He worked as an Insurance Salesman for a while but then decided to follow his roots and start his own family-owned neighborhood grocery store In Pearsall, Texas on Peach Street. He made a bold decision to relocate his grocery store to the edge of town where more traffic would bring more business. There was going to be a new highway built all the way south to Laredo, Texas. This was IH35. His thought was that this new highway would be built next to his new location. But that didn’t happen. The new freeway was built just too far. So, he uprooted his family, and they moved to San Antonio for better opportunities. In San Antonio he found jobs as a meat cutter, then moved up the “ladder” to become Meat Market Manager over several grocery stores for the chain store company named Fed Mart. He progressed to become Meat Buyer that took him traveling throughout the states to slaughterhouses and meat packing plants. He got to be involved in the growth of today’s modern way of shopping at Sam’s and Costco! Paul and Mary moved into their new home in Tareyton Terrace in 1967 and saw the new Catholic Church of St. Leonard’s get built. As time passed and job changes occurred around 1989, they decided to again open and run their own family owned and Operated neighborhood grocery store on Commercial Avenue here in South Side San Antonio. Mary started her accounting business and Pablo ran the store. Mary maintained the books and her accounting in the store. After about eight years they sold this store and continued with the accounting business now running it from home. Paul’s new job title became Assistant to Mary’s Alamo City Bookkeeping Services . He delivered her finished reports to various small businesses around the city. This business now became a “B to B”. They had always been active in the new Church and Pablo became a Lifetime Member of the Knights of Columbus. Pablo believed in discipline and strong character and always believed in what is right and moral and would always question your perspective and point of view and demanded support of your argument. He was a history buff and applied his knowledge to today’s political climate. He asked philosophical questions. And he seeked understanding of all communities. He was recently trying to comprehend and understand AI. He possessed a sense of humor that he revealed in subtle and surprising ways letting you know that he had been listening to you most intensely. He added humor to the conversation in surprising ways to suddenly make you laugh. Since a very young boy he had the ability to build paper or cardboard or wood airplanes in accurate dimensions and be able to give them flight. He could throw them into the air, and they would easily glide. He could draw those airplanes with accurate 3-D rendering. And he could accurately name them according to the name of jets and airplanes in flight today. In one word he was a “Creative”. He is survived by his daughter Anna L.J. Diaz (Edward); son Paul R. Jimenez; brother Enrique Jimenez Jr., sisters Eufemia Jimenez Garza, Maria Evarista Jimenez Salinas, Corina Jimenez Jaimes; grandchildren Adrien R. Jimenez, Adam R. Jimenez, and Edward P. Diaz; great grandchildren Jordyn Jimenez and Isaiah Jimenez and numerous nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by spouse Maria Lara Jimenez, parents Enrique and Ebarista Jimenez, brother Juan Jimenez and sister Elodia Jimenez Sharkey.

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Pablo Cavazos Jimenez

September 5, 1932 - February 2, 2025