Wilford Lee Brady, Jr.:
CLASS OF 1961
Thomasville High SchoolClass of 1961
Thomasville, GA
Wilford Lee's Story
Life
A brief summary:
1961-1966 college (Emory-at-Oxford, Univ. of Ga., Ga. State)
1966 married first time; son born
1967 first divorce
1967-1971 U.S. Navy; Hospital Corpsman; stationed San Diego, Ca., Oakland, Ca., Portsmouth, Va.; U.S.S. Sanctuary AH-17, Danang, Republic of South Vietnam
1968 second marriage
1974-1976 graduate school, Tulane Univ., N.O., La.
(1966-1978 generally worked in the mental health field, including military period)
1983 Pop died
1985 second divorce
1979-2003 worked in information technology, primarily mainframe; retired Jan.,2004 from Dept. of Communications and Information Technology, City of Virginia Beach, after 23 years
1999 moved Mom to Virginia Beach (she turned 87 last month)
2003 third marriage, to old flame who was originally from Ga.
2007 legally separated in Feb.; divorce coming (unlucky in love, 3-time loser)
So, you might say that my options are open right now. Retired and all that, but right now having to work on plan B.
I have no one left in Thomasville, except in Laurel Hill. My first cousin Linda, who graduated with us, was in Jacksonville last I heard.
Since last year I've done some genealogy research and have discovered that I probably have a number of distant relatives from Thomas Co. t...Expand for more
hrough Grady, Decatur, and Seminole to the Ala. border. Of course, the Brady's being as strange as they were, I met very few while growing up in Thomasville. Go figure.
When Mom, Daren, and I are gone it will be the end of my branch of the Bradys. I guess that was one of the reasons, besides curiosity, that got me interested in family research.
Sometime this year I hope to make a trip to Georgia to do some research in a number of counties.
Lee Brady
June 11, 2007
June 2, 2008:
In March, 2007 my son began dialysis treatments 3 days a week. He had End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) caused by an inherited kidney disease that his biological mother did not know she had. She died in Georgia from long-term complications from the same disease 2 days before my son began his treatments. He currently is on disability and trying to qualify for the transplant waiting list.
My mother made 88 back in March, but last year we were told she had the early stages of some form of dementia.
I have not as yet made that trip back to Georgia to do family research. It would be nice to combine that with attending a reunion.
March 20, 2010: Mom turned 90 this week (16th)
April 8, 2013, Mom passes, age 93.; interred in Brady plot, 7th street. Laurel Hill.
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