Two years ago, Pauline Dube lost her husband, Gene Dube, to cancer. From his diagnosis in October 2006 until his passing, she had only seven months to get used to the idea that she would be running the family business — Pat Jackson Inc./Tri-City Septic Tank Service — alone.“It was like slam-bam and it was over,” she recalls. “I took care of our 14-year-old daughter, Monica, who had become ill from the stress of watching her father suffer.” Both mother and daughter took the death hard, but Pauline Dube knew she had to pull herself together if she was going
