Capt. Augustine Edward “Gus” Hubal, Jr.

Class of 1948

June 28, 1930 - December 21, 2009 (aged 79)

A Sayville hero at age 12

When Augustine Edward “Gus” Hubal, Jr. was born on June 28, 1930, in New York, his father, Augustine, was 33 and his mother, Helen, was 33.

He had one sister, Helen.

At age 12, August Hubal, Jr. was already a Sayville town hero, being described along with Miss Elizabeth Jensen in the Suffolk County News, as being a “man of action, courage, and presence of mind”.

August and Elizabeth were on WWII “Plane Watch” in the tower of “old 88”, when they discovered and extinguished a fire.  Had they not acted quickly and efficiently, Old 88 might well have burned.

Education and Military training

Gus Hubal graduated from Sayville High in 1948, third-highest academically in the class.   At Sayville High, he excelled on the Football and Basketball teams.

He then attended Admiral Farragut Academy in Toms River, Va., where he was a member of the football team.

Gus entered the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1949, only the second Sayville man at that time, to do so.

Capt. Augustine Edward “Gus” Hubal, Jr.

United States Navy.

Photo courtesy of Jack Davison, FIND A GRAVE ID 47534141.

Family

Sister

Helen June (Hubal) Schaefer - Clareus

Class of 1939

Findagrave memorial page for Helen June (Hubal) Schaefer - Clareus

Mother

Findagrave memorial page for Helen Gladys (Speta) Hubal

Father

Augustine Edward “August” Hubal, Sr.

served on the Sayville Board of Education for more than 25 years, served as chairman of the board and later became a Justice of the Peace for the Town of Islip.

The Sayville High School unit of the National Honor Society was named in honor of August Hubal, Sr. in 1953.

Photograph is courtesy the Sayville Library and was taken in 1929.

Marries a Sayville High Sweetheart

Judith Kay (Crosier) Hubal, Class of 1949

Gus married Judith Kay Crosier, Sayville High Class of 1949 on June 17, 1953, at St. Ann’s Church in Sayville.   Their wedding reception was held at the Shoreham in Sayville.

Gus and Judith had three children during his marriage.

Judith, age 90 lives in Falls Church, VA.

The Legion of Merit (LOM)

Capt. Hubal was a recipient of The Legion of Merit (LOM) medal, a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements. The decoration is issued to members of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

USS Amberjack (SS-522)

USS Amberjack (SS 522), a Tench-class submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy named for the amberjack, a vigorous sport fish found in the western Atlantic from New England to Brazil.

Her keel was laid down by the Boston Naval Shipyard of Boston, Massachusetts, on 8 February 1944. She was launched on 15 December 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Walter E. Lang, Jr., and commissioned on 4 March 1946, with Commander William B. Parham in command.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Amberjack_(SS-522)

Obituary.

A lifelong Republican, Capt. Hubal resigned his Navy commission to manage the first successful congressional campaign of Virginia Republican Frank R. Wolf.

The two met through a friend, Edward DeBolt, a 1976 campaign strategist for Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. (I-Va.). Capt. Hubal worked for a year in Wolf’s office before taking a job with defense contractor Rockwell International working in submarine development. He retired in 1993.

His military decorations included the Legion of Merit.

Augustine Edward Hubal was born in Sayville, N.Y. He played baseball while attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. He graduated in 1953.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, the former Judith Kay Crosier of McLean; three children, Allison Pizzi of Fairfax City, Mark Hubal of Herndon and August Scott Hubal of Coronado, Calif.; and seven grandchildren.

Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010703962_5.html

Capt. Augustine Edward “Gus” Hubal, Jr., died on December 21, 2009, in Fairfax, Virginia, at the age of 79.

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