Martin Rubio Cuevas

Martín Rubio Cuevas, 84, of Houston, Texas passed away Sunday, October 19, 2025 after a long and valiant health battle. A long-time resident of Houston, Mr. Rubio was born in 1941 in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, where he grew up with his loving family and made many lifelong friends. Throughout his life he was proud of his roots in Yucatán. He was a graduate of the St. John’s College high school in Belize Town, British Honduras (now Belize). As a young man, he enjoyed fishing, swimming, and sailing with his friends and family in the southern Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. He moved to Houston in 1963 to study at the University of St. Thomas and later transferred to the University of Houston, graduating in 1968 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. It was in Houston that Mr. Rubio met and married his lovely wife and best friend Aimee, started and raised his family, and built his career as an instrumentation and controls engineer. He began his engineering career working in the oil & gas industry, where his time included working on an offshore drilling platform in the Black Sea. He started his own industrial microprocessor controls company and later retired from his engineering career at Mustang Engineering. A man of deep Catholic faith, he attended Holy Rosary Catholic Church and volunteered at several organizations, including Casa Juan Diego and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, to offer assistance and dignity to those less fortunate than himself. He was a very capable man with a curious mind. He took pride in repairing just about anything that needed it, often improving it over its original design. He taught his sons how to work with their hands and be self-reliant, often having them do various types of repairs and maintenance to the family vehicles and home on their own. Mr. Rubio was passionate about watching his sons and grandchildren play sports, and he was the head coach of several of his sons’ soccer teams in the West University and Aeros soccer leagues from the late 1970s through the 1980s. He also enjoyed taking his family sailing on catamarans when on beach vacations. He treasured his family and friends, and in recent years could often be found flying (and sometimes crashing) model airplanes at the Bayou City Flyers RC club in Houston. Mr. Rubio was preceded in death by his parents Carlos Rubio Rojas and Maria Cuevas de Rubio, and his daughter-in-law Nicole Rubio. He leaves behind his loving wife of 55 years, Aimee Rubio; sons, Martin B. Rubio and wife Lindsay, Diego Rubio and wife Sue; grandchildren Anastasia Rubio and Gregory Rubio, Olivia Rubio and Henry Rubio; his family in Mérida, Mexico: brother Carlos Rubio Cuevas and wife Angelita; sister Ingrid Rubio de Nelson; nieces Angela Maria Rubio Atoche, Helena Rubio Atoche, and Esther Rubio Atoche; nephews Carlos Rubio Atoche, Jose Alfredo Rubio Atoche, Jose Luis Rubio Atoche, Dennis Nelson Rubio, and Andrew Nelson Rubio; and a host of other beloved family and friends. Mr. Rubio was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him. The Rubio family would like to express its deep gratitude to Dr. Oscar Rosales, Karen Ellison, and the entire staff at Houston Cardiovascular Associates, as well as the entire care team at Memorial Hermann Hospital. These fine professionals not only provided excellent care to him in his final weeks and months, but throughout many years of his life, undoubtedly extending his life by many enjoyable years. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, November 21, 2025 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, 7809 Shadyvilla Lane, Houston, Texas 77055. Interment will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends in St. Jude Hall at the church following interment. In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions in Mr. Rubio’s honor be directed to the American Heart Association.