Gay Ruby Dahlstrom, wife, mother, entrepreneur and self-employed businesswoman, died Monday, December 8, of complications with pneumonia. She was born Eloise Gay Ruby (“Babe” to her family) in Lockhart, Texas at her grandparents’ home on April 2, 1930.
In 1937, she moved to Buda with her parents, James Cecil Ruby and Louise Walter Ruby, and older brother, James Cecil Ruby Jr. (“Bubba”). Her father was a local rancher and road contractor.
She attended Buda School where she met her future husband, Jack Dahlstrom, who was in the third grade as she was entering second grade. Her junior year she was voted Most Popular Girl and she and Jack were elected King and Queen of the Prom. Her senior year, she was responsible, with support from Jack and her parents, for publishing the first Buda High School annual.
