Diana Sierra Cavazos

1947 - 2025

Diana (Sierra) Cavazos, loving wife, nurturing mother and beloved grandmother succumbed to her long fight with Dementia on March 17, 2025.

She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Ramiro D. Cavazos, M.D., as well as R. D. (Sonny) Cavazos, M.D. and his wife Monica Anz-Cavazos, M.D. and their daughters, Mary Caroline, Julianna, and Eve of San Antonio, E. Marc Cavazos and his wife Megan Cavazos and their children Katharine, William, Maggie and Owen of Austin, and Nicole C. Dresher, NCIDQ and her son's William and Jack of Austin.

Diana and her future husband met at a 1964 Thanksgiving Holiday Dance in their hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas. She was a freshman at Texas Women's University and he was a sophomore at Baylor University. She told him she was homesick and he told her he had been through that the previous year, he would write her and see if any of his advice could help. Pen pals became friends and Christmas Holiday of 1965 they had their first date, the movie, Dr. Zhivago. That date became a love affair that lasted for 60 years.

Diana was an excellent student but interrupted her education to marry Ramiro and become the family breadwinner while he attended the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The family moved to Fort Worth to join the Pediatric Practices of William B. Scroggie, M.D. and R. L. Stinson Jones, M.D. in 1975. In those days before the arrival of Emergency Room Doctors, Hospitalists, Intensive Care Doctors and Neonatologists, the practice of medicine was even more time consuming than it is today. Diana raised the three children almost single handedly. The character and success of their three children rests almost entirely on her. When the children were all in school, Diana returned to Texas Women's University and received her Bachelors Degree, Magna Cum Laude.

Her most enjoyable role in life was that of MiMi to her grandchildren. Whether is was sewing a baptismal gown, rocking a colicky baby, sitting with anxious parents in a surgical waiting room or providing moral support during a bout of chemotherapy, MiMi was always there with that beautiful smile on her face.

Services include a Rosary at 10:00 am, Saturday, March 22, 2025 at Thompson's Harveson and Cole Funeral Home with Visitation following until 11:00 am and Liturgy of the Word beginning at 11:00. Entombment will follow at Greenwood Mausoleum.

Should friends desire, memorials in lieu of flowers may be given to the Alzheimer's Association in her memory.