Roll Call Tribute

Katherine Myers Sabom 

March 24, 1971 - March 31, 2025 

Katherine Myers Sabom lived a beautiful, loving, and grace-filled life and went to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday the 31st of March 2025, as a result of the 5th of February 2025, heart attack. Katherine, named after her two grandmothers, was born to Martha and Terry Sabom on the 24th of March 1971 (the same birthday as her maternal grandfather), in Frankfurt, Germany while her father was serving a tour of duty with the United States Army. She grew up in Houston, attending the original Little School at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Memorial Drive Elementary School, Spring Branch Middle School and Memorial High School where she graduated with honors. At Texas A&M University she earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting and subsequently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Master of Business Administration degree. At Texas A&M, Katherine participated in the Student Conference on National Affairs and was a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional business fraternity.

Katherine was a Certified Public Accountant and began her career in accounting and finance with an internship at Tenneco Natural Gas Corporation in Houston. She subsequently moved into financial positions at Continental Airlines and worked as a Risk Manager at First Data Corporation (Telecheck). Her time at Continental Airlines, along with her mother’s work as a travel agent, cemented a lifelong love of traveling. Most recently, she was working as a Senior Financial Analyst at the Harris County Department of Public Health, arriving in the turbulent period of the Covid pandemic. In the business world, Katherine was a skilled contributor and the ultimate team player whom fellow employees called upon regularly when they needed a hand.

Katherine’s priorities in life revolved around faith, family and friends. She was baptized and confirmed at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church (MDPC), a church founded by her paternal grandparents. She loved and enjoyed youth, discipleship and mission activities including a memorable trip to Honduras to visit an MDPC ministry partner, The Micah Project, which operates three group homes in Tegucigalpa for boys who want to leave the streets. Several years ago, she began worshipping at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and joined a bible study small group that met weekly and that became the nucleus of her faith journey.

As in many families, traditional and ad hoc activities produce memorable relationships, and Katherine’s exuberant participation in Sabom family events was no exception. There were Easter egg hunts and Thanksgiving get-togethers at the family farm in Burton, Texas, Christmas Eve gift “pass arounds” (a forty plus year tradition), family ski trips to Steamboat Springs, summer excursions to the beach at Galveston, Rockport and South Padre Island, and family birthday parties with mandatory singing. The 2024 San Antonio Fiesta was a special time for Katherine and family supporting her niece who “reigned” as a duchess in the Queen of Fiesta’s court. Katherine and her mother also enjoyed a cruise to Spain and Portugal, and at Katherine’s insistence, a “pilgrimage” to Memphis where her mother was born and to a nearby farm in Mississippi where her maternal grandparents formerly lived. In every case, Katherine could be counted upon not only to show up but also to exhibit contagious enthusiasm for the event in a way that included and energized all of the participants in the occasion. She wasn’t the “life of the party”; she gave life to the event that could be shared by all.

Not to be forgotten are the legions of Katherine’s close friends. As her mother says, she maintained friendships with every friend she ever made, beginning in third grade. She has separate cohorts of friends from her K-12 years, happy days at Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River, the time in Aggieland, her University of Texas years, working at Tenneco, the days at Continental Airlines, her work at First Data, the time at MDPC and St. Luke’s, the Junior League of Houston, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Caring Aggie Mentor Program, and most recently at Harris County Public Health. Katherine loved the outdoors, walking regularly on Tanglewood Boulevard and in the Glades area of Memorial Park and proudly completing a half marathon. She was always available and ready to tackle new adventures, to celebrate, or to help out, it did not matter which. The standing joke among her friends is the “debate” about which of them is Katherine’s best friend. They each feel that she bestowed that honor on them, and during Katherine’s recent hospitalization, they all showed up to resurrect the issue.

Katherine was predeceased by her grandparents Dr. George Falconer and wife Doris Myers Falconer and Robert Sabom and wife Katherine Kisten (Connie) Sabom and is survived by her parents, Martha and Terry Sabom; her brother, Rob Sabom and his wife Adrian of San Antonio; her niece, Mia Sabom and nephew, Teel Sabom both of San Antonio; her aunt, Kathy Sabom Parker and husband Clay of Chappell Hill, Texas; her uncle, David Sabom and wife Reverend Sharon Sabom of Needville, Texas; her cousin, Grady Lee, wife Kate and son Parker, of Bethesda, Maryland; her cousin, Araby Peters, husband Eddie, son Brax and daughter Bryn, of Needville, Texas; and her cousins, Marcus Sabom and Preston Sabom of Houston. Extended family members who knew and loved Katherine are mourning her loss in Washington, Iowa, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia. She is also being remembered by a special friend, Jaxon Blake Nelson of Houston, by whom she is lovingly referred to as Aunt Katrene.

Special thanks go out to the ICU doctors and nurses at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital and Memorial Hermann Medical Center Hospital for their extraordinary efforts on Katherine’s behalf.

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