Republican for presidential nominees by establishing many statewide organizations. She died of a stroke in 1995, in Houston, and was buried at Glenwood Cemetery. Her son William P. Hobby, Jr., served as the 37th lieutenant governor of Texas from 1973 to 1991, the longest serving in that position. Her daughter Jessica was married to Henry E. Catto, Jr., the former United States Ambassador to Great Britain and was an activist for environmental causes and for the Democratic Party. Hobby's grandson Paul Hobby narrowly lost the election for comptroller of Texas to Carole Strayhorn in the 1998 general election. Legacy The library at Central Texas College is named after her. A residence dormitory at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, is named after her. The Oveta Culp Hobby Soldier & Family Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas is named for her. An elementary school in Killeen, Texas (Killeen ISD) is named after her. The U.S. Post Office issued an 84-cent stamp in her honor in 2011. A building on the grounds of the Peaceable Kingdom (Children's Retreat Center) in Killeen Texas is named after her. A Department of Health, Education and Welfare Service award was named in her honor to recognize superior devotion to duty. In 1996, Hobby was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. On December 7, 2021, her 1943 oil portrait in uniform painted by noted portrait artist Seymour M. Stone was installed in the Killeen Main Library in Killeen, Texas. The Education Center at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas is named for her. Sources Pando, Robert T. "Oveta Culp Hobby: A Study in Power and Control." Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 2008, 442 pages. https://books.google.com/books/about/Oveta_Culp_Hobby.html?id=id6lXwAACAAJ Treadwell, Mattie E. The Woman's Army Corps. The U.S. Army in World War II (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1954). https://history.army.mil/html/books/011/11-8/index.html "U.S. Army Women's Museum Celebrates Women's History Month: Oveta Culp Hobby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3-PBXqVq0&t=66s Walsh, Kelli Cardenas. "Oveta Culp Hobby: A Transformational Leader from the Texas Legislature to Washington, D.C." Ph.D. dissertation, University of South Carolina, 2006, 199 pages. Winegarten, Debra L. Oveta Culp Hobby: Colonel, Cabinet Member, Philanthropist. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014). https://books.google.com/books/about/Oveta_Culp_Hobby.html?id=M-dlAwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description See also List of female United States Cabinet members Further reading References External links Papers of Oveta Culp Hobby, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Guide to the Oveta Culp Hobby Papers, 1817–1995 at the Woodson Research Center,