Kathy Boring announced to her mother Del Hobbs that she was going to build new tables for Moya’s in honor of the restaurant’s 70th anniversary, Del had two requests.

“I want one table with a Bobcat on it and one with an Eagle,” she said. “We support both teams.”

Kathy and her husband Ralph went to work in their garage. The tables in place for Saturday’s 70th anniversary party at Refugio’s oldest cafe. Posing for an anniversary picture, Del and her two daughters, Kathy and Sharon Kowald both wore Bobcat orange.

“Oh, yes, we still bleed orange and black,” Del says.

Football is still king at the eatery.

Behind the register is a picture of the late Tony Moya, Del’s sister, who posed with three of the 1982 Bobcats with a cake made for that year’s reigning state champions.

“I don’t think there was a bigger Bobcat fan in Refugio than my sister Tony,” Del says. “She always had a cake made for the Bobcats to enjoy until someone questioned whether UIL rules allowed it.”

Tony was also instrumental in chartering buses to playoff games.

On Saturday, football fans traveling from north and south to playoff games stopped at the cafe. Each one received a piece of the 70th anniversary cake. Most had a remark about the Bobcat and Eagle tables.

“Everybody got to celebrate with us,” Del said. “It reminded me of the days when mother and Toni would go to the tables and give the customers a slice of cake when we would celebrate special occasions.”

But the cake almost didn’t make it when the family went to Victoria to pick up the gigantic cake, made to feed 200 people.

“The box with the cake took a nose dive right off the cart,” Del said. “When they opened the box, there was not one crack in it. The angels must have held it together. I believe in angels and I believe that angels make things right.”

The little cafe on Second Street makes the news all over Texas. In a Sugar Land restaurant, a map of Texas adorns the wall. Someone drew in a star at Refugio and wrote, “Moya’s, the best Mexican food in Texas.” Customers return year after year, including ex-Bobcats.

“The Bobcats always dressed in coats and ties on game day,” she said. “The young men came in and we had a table set for them. The customers would ask, ‘who are those young men?’ We were so proud to say, ‘they are the Bobcats.’”

Del and her late husband Tommy Hobbs bought the restaurant from Tony and sister Petra Rodriguez when their mother, the founder of the restaurant, died in 1994.

Her daughter Sharon has been helping her carry the torch in recent years so Del’s fondest dream is for the cafe to continue in the family.

“My gift in life is to serve the public,” Del said. “As long as the Moya family is here, we’ll back the Bobcats.”