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August 23, 1912 – October 18, 2007
Services for Helen Louise Dube were held at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Dime Box on October 20, 2007. Rev. Dale Bohm presided. Burial followed at the St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in Dime Box.
Pallbearers were: Jeff Mikulin, Jim Bob Dube, Justin Maass, Riley Key, Ray Maass, Douglas Spacek, Duke Dismukes, Jim Matheson. Memorials may be made to the Trinity Lutheran Church in Dime Box.
Helen was born in Beat Five, Lee County on Aug. 23, 1912. Her parents were Emil John Anschutz and Mattie (Tisdale) Anschutz.
Helen married Walter S. Dube on Nov. 12, 1930. She was a farmer. Helen died on October 18, 2007.
She is survived by her children: Jo Nimtz and husband Pete of Giddings, Dot Norred and husband Bobby of Kingsland, Texas, Bobby Dube and wife Bonnie of Round Top, Texas, Becky Maass and husband Clyde of Giddings; daughter-in-law, Peggy Dube of Giddings; sister, Dorothy Dismukes of Dime Box; grandchildren: LaShelle Maass and husband Ray, Denise Frasier and husband Stacy, Penny Smith, Robyn Jacob and husband Lane, Jim Bob Dube, Jeff Mikulin and wife Delores, Tammy Fischer and husband Brian, Justin Maass and wife Paige, Jackie Dube; 12 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives and many friends.
Helen was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her son, Jack Dube; her brother, Emmett Anschutz and her son-in-law, Alvin Mikulin.
July 29, 1935 - September 25, 2007
Clay Roger Gault was born July 24, 1935, in Austin, TX, to Joe H. Gault and Vera Smith (B.B.) Gault, the middle child of three sons, proceeded in death by his parents and brother, Joe P. Gault and survived by his younger brother Billy Gene Gault. The family was descended from the original colonists brought to Texas by Stephen F. Austin and had lived in the Austin area for many years. His family was one of the founding members of the Walnut Creek Baptist Church near the family home.
He was active in sports as a boy and played in the American Legion Baseball national finals in Denver in 1951. He contracted polio as a teenager and although he was no longer able to play baseball, he maintained his connection with the sport as a trainer as well as a fan of the University of Texas Longhorn Baseball and Football teams.
Clay graduated from Austin High School and then attended the University of Texas, where he was a manager and trainer for the Longhorn Baseball Team under the legendary coach Bibb Falk. After graduating with a degree in physical education in 1957, he went on to a physical therapy internship at Hermann Hospital in Houston.
After completing the physical therapy internship, he returned to Austin where he joined the staff of Brackenridge Hospital as a physical therapist and worked there for many years, before devoting his energies entirely to his passion of making custom knives.
He married Bobbie Ann Williamson and they had one child, Bibb Troy Gault, born July 18, 1961. They divorced in 1976.
After leaving Brackenridge Hospital to devote his energies to custom knife making, he established a reputation as one of the country’s most skilled and respected knife makers and emphasized the making of dependable knives for use by hunters and outdoorsmen as well as for knife collectors. He was recognized as a voting member of the Knife Makers’ Guild, the most prestigious knife makers’ organization in America, in 1976.
He was also a member of the Texas Knife Makers and Collectors Association and was to have received their “Texas Legend” award the weekend following his death.
Clay moved to the family farm in Lee County in the 1980s and when the property was taken for aluminum production in 1998 he relocated to another farm near Lexington.
He was an avid hunter and had taken many species of American game as well as going on an African safari.
He had begun to have health problems in the past years and died at his home outside Lexington on September 25, 2007, at the age of 72 years.
A celebration of Clay’s life for family and friends will be held at noon on Sunday, October 28, at Serrano’s Symphony Square Restaurant located at 1111 Red River in Austin.