Robert E. Lee Bradley

He was a native Houstonian born on the 24th of October 1926. He attended MacGregor Elementary School and The Kinkaid School in Houston and graduated Cum Laude from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas in 1947 where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa scholastic fraternity.

After a semester of study toward a Master of Arts degree in English literature at the University of Virginia, he returned to the University of Texas to attend law school. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Texas Law School in 1951.

From 1951 to 1952, Mr. Bradley served as Assistant District Attorney for Harris County. He then joined the law firm now known as Andrews & Kurth as an associate lawyer. He did trial work his first five years there. After he became a partner, he represented various pipeline companies and a bank for the firm. He retired in 1987.

Mr. Bradley leaves his wife, Margaret Lockett Bradley; two children, Elizabeth Andrews Bradley and Robert L. Bradley, Jr.; and two grandchildren, Catherine Frances Bradley and Robert L. Bradley III; and daughters-in-law Nancy Capps Bradley and Jennifer Spencer Bradley. He was preceded in death by his sister, Frances Bradley Lummis.

Mr. Bradley was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston, the Bayou Club, the River Oaks Country Club, and the Riverhill Country Club of Kerrville. He had an interest in 18th and 19th century English literature and the history of motion pictures, particularly silent film comedy, and was a guest lecturer at Houston Baptist University on these subjects. In 2008, HBU awarded Mr. Bradley an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in recognition of his gifts over three decades to the university of “books, films, recordings, time, and financial resources,” and for being “a gentleman and a scholar.”

Over the years, Mr. Bradley also acquired an extensive record library of New Orleans jazz music, which he donated to the Tulane University Jazz Archives. He loved good food, wine and foreign travel, especially to France where he felt at home and had many friends.

The memorial service is to be conducted at eleven o’clock in the morning on Wednesday, the 28 of May, in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main Street, where Dr. Bill Heston, Executive Pastor, is to officiate. Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception in the fellowship hall.

Prior to the service, the family will have gathered for a private interment service at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests that contributions in his memory may be directed to First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main St., Houston, TX, 77004; or a charity of one’s choice.

“So when a good man dies, for years beyond his ken, the light

he leaves behind him lies upon the paths of men.”

- Longfellow