Pattye Jane Hubby

Pattye passed away September 9, 2019, at Cedar Bluffs Assisted Living Center in Mansfield, Texas. Graveside services will be 1:00 p.m., September 11, at Oakwood Cemetery, located at 2124 S 5th Street in Waco, with family and friends officiating. Visitation will be 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home, located at 6101 Bosque Blvd, Waco, Texas 76710. Pattye was born July 6, 1920, at home in Mart, Texas. She grew up in Mart and was married to Albert G. Hubby, Jr., 55 years from 1945 to 2000. She worked for the FBI, was a meteorologist, model and salesperson. Her favorite activities were reading, swimming, playing tennis and bridge. Pattye was best known to her friends as Pat. Her father was a rancher and entrepreneur, owning three businesses in Mart and raised cattle. Pat began working at age 12, selling tickets and popcorn at the two family-owned movie theaters. After graduating from Mart High School in 1937, she attended college at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, until 1942 when she went to work for the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover during WWII in Washington D.C. In 1944 she became a meteorologist, stationed at Tinker Airfield in Oklahoma City, until she married the love of her life, Albert Hubby, Jr., whom she met in an air raid drill during the war in D.C. They married in July 5, 1945, in his hometown of Waco, not far from where she grew up in Mart. They lived briefly in Dallas until he was hired by Magnolia Oil Co. as a geophysicist, when he bought a jeep and a trailer so the couple could follow his work together across Texas. After several years on the geophysical crew, he was able to land an office job in Dallas as a Design Electronic Engineer, and they bought a home there. Out of necessity, he had to take the family to Folsom, California, and Denver for three years until he was able to move back to Dallas permanently. The couple raised three children: Cindy born in 1950, Albert, III in 1951 and Dana in 1956. Though a devoted mother, Pat wasn’t one to sit at home since she had been working since she was twelve. She worked briefly in retail credit and modeling until Dana was born. After he started school, she went back to work in retail sales and found her niche in shoe sales where she worked at high end Dallas stores like Neiman Marcus, Sakowitz, and Saks 5th Avenue, until she retired in 1972. She remained very active walking her dog for 2 miles twice a day until the age of 88 and continued to live independently driving, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning her house and playing bridge three times a week until 2015 when she moved into an adult senior living complex. In 2017 she moved into Cedar Bluffs Assisted Living until she passed quietly in her sleep on September 9, 2019. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Hubby; her sons, Dana Hubby and Albert G. Hubby, III; her brothers, Palmer Cayton, Jack Cayton, Carl Cayton, John Cayton, Jr.; her sister, Peggy Romine; and her parents, John and Helen Cayton. Her survivors are her daughter, Cindy McReynolds and her husband, Clay; and their two children, Sean and Patricia McReynolds. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to Alzheimer’s Association. The family invites you to leave a message or memory on our “Tribute Wall” at www.WHBfamily.com.