de Chabert sold a significant amount of her family land to Hess Oil and Chemical for an oil refinery in 1955, negotiating face-to-face with owner Leon Hess.
With some of the money, she invested and brought the Sunny Isle Shopping Center to St. Croix.
She was also elected to and served on the Virgin Islands Board of Education as the chair from 1964 to 1970 and was active in several community organizations.
After his death, she married Reverend Clarke, the vicar of St. John's Episcopal Church in Christiansted.
After her death she was honoured by Resolution 778, March 1, 1976, of the Virgin Islands legislature, which commemorated her "lifetime of human warmth, noble pursuits and good works throughout the Virgin Islands community".