Grace Caldwell was the kind of person who for years passed out cold root beer to her trash truck guys. The Texas Longhorns had no greater fan. She had a long list of questions for God of things she really wondered about. On Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, Grace Dale Caldwell, 85, passed from this life and Austin will be diminished without her. She was born Sept. 11, 1923, to Frank Edgar Caldwell and Winnie Grace McQuigg Caldwell of Austin. She was a lifelong member of the University Avenue Church of Christ and a steadfast member of the chapel Sunday School class. As a child, she attended St. Mary's School for Girls and then the Austin public school system. She was preceded in death by her parents, by her brother Frank, and by her brother John and his wife Estelle. She was always generous with her time, driving older friends to appointments and running errands for them. She loved to joke and tell of funny incidents in "old Austin." Although she never married, this "adopted grandma" will be greatly missed by her adoptive "nieces and nephews" and her Pemberton Heights neighbors. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar, with Eddie Sharp, University Avenue minister, officiating. Burial will follow in the family plot at Oakwood Cemetery Annex.
