Visitation - 1st Baptist Church Salado, Friday, February 19th, 6 to 8 PM. Service - 1st Baptist Church Salado, Saturday, Februaary 20th at 11:00 AM

HUGH DELLE BROADWAY

February 12, 1930 – February 15, 2016

On February 12th, 1930, a second daughter was born to Minnie and Hugh Manahan. Wishing for a boy – a junior if you will – this daughter received the name of Hugh. Her parents then added Delle attempting to feminize her having her father’s name, so Hugh Delle she became.

Growing up in Houston, Hugh Delle attended Alamo Elementary School, Hamilton Junior High, and her beloved Reagan High School, where she played the bell lyre for many Red Coats football games, parades, and gala festivities. Always wanting to be a leader, Hugh Delle attended the University of Corpus Christi, receiving a B.S. in education in 1951. Shortly after earning this degree, she married the delight of her life, W.D. Broadway and began not only a dream of teaching but also a dream of being a preacher’s wife, careers she enjoyed for over 50 years. She also earned a Master’s in Education Administration from Sam Houston State University.

Her accolades include secondary teacher of the year, twice founding president of Delta Kappa Gamma, and numerous honorary degrees. Her teaching profession included 33 years in a high school senior English classroom and serving as “den mother” to 35 English and foreign language teachers. After “retiring,” Hugh Delle continued her teaching endeavors by supervising student teachers at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor. Hugh Delle also served as a consultant for the state of Texas for a number of years, evaluating and making recommendations regarding high school textbooks.

Church activities never took a back seat to teaching in Hugh Delle’s life. In various churches, she served alongside W.D. by teaching Sunday School to everyone from 2-year-olds to adults. She often led Bible studies, youth camps, Vacation Bible Schools, Girl’s in Action Mission Groups, Women’s Missionary Union gatherings, and church prayer meetings. She had a beautiful singing voice and was a faithful member of the church choir and an often-requested soloist.

Hugh Delle was also a quintessential entertainer – tirelessly planning, coordinating, cooking for, and hosting parties and gatherings at her home and at churches for a multitude of events over the years. She enjoyed every minute she put into making guests feel welcome, comfortable, taken care of, and well-fed.

Her family found her consistently to be wise, strong, thoughtful, encouraging, supportive, funny, full of laughter and song, joyful, often silly (but in the best way you can imagine), quick with a kind and comforting word, resilient, stubbornly hopeful, and relentlessly loving.

Preceding her in death are her parents Hugh and Minnie Manahan, her sister Florence Mae Caudle, her daughter-in-law Everly Estes Broadway, and her niece Joey Franklin Duncan.

She leaves behind her beloved husband of 64 years W.D. Broadway; her daughter Jerene Broadway and son-in-law Jim Lowder; her son Mike Broadway; her four grandchildren Elizabeth Amanecer, David Broadway, Naomi Broadway, and Lydia Broadway; her two great grandchildren Izabella and Ellia; her brother and sister-in-law Harold and Martha Manahan; her nieces Nancy Williams, Sharon Nigh, Patrice Franklin, and nephew Tim Franklin; and her cousins Janis Havard, Gwen Hendrix, Nell Fleming, Gay Myrick, and J.T. Wier.

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.” – Psalm 23:6

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Scholarship Fund San Marcos Baptist Academy, 2801 Ranch Road 12, San Marcos, TX 78666. Phone 512-753-8041.