Phyllis Adelaide Moldenhauer

Our wonderful, beautiful Nana was born in Los Angeles in 1932, the middle of three girls, and the second child born to Adelaide Cecilia Rood and Robert Thomson.

Phyllis loved to dance. It was one of her favourite pastimes and a talent she shared with her daughter and grandchildren. At 20, she was attending a local dance and met a man named John Speedy. They fell in love, married, and became parents to Phyllis’s only child, a daughter she named Hansi, after her beloved younger sister. Though Phyllis and John later separated, they always maintained a special love for their daughter and her family, and were friends until John’s passing in 2006.

In 1957, Phyllis met and married Max W. Moldenhauer. For 55 years, they were nearly inseparable, until Max finally passed away in 2012 at 90 years old. Together, Max and Phyllis traveled the country in their Bounder motorhome - often with some or all of their three grandchildren - visiting National Parks, playing at amusement parks, and attending polka festivals. All the while, creating amazing memories with kids who will forever remember them as “the best grandparents to have grown up with.”

Aside from working as one of the first female computer programmers for IBM, Phyllis was renowned and admired for her talent as a sewer and knitter.

She is missed dearly by her daughter, Hansi Braddock; son-in-law, Gary Braddock; grandchildren, Sarah “Adelaide” Braddock, Elizabeth “Betsy” Garrett, and Robert “Rob” Braddock; grandchildren-in-law, Jim Manning (Sarah), Brian Garrett (Betsy), and Elizabeth “Beth” Braddock (Robert); great-grandchildren, Phillip and Cagney Garrett (Betsy), and Collin and Nathaniel “Nate” Braddock (Robert); and the grand-pets she so lovingly spoiled, Rocky and Catalunya.

In lieu of flowers, her family asks for donations to the local hospice charity of your choice as thank you to all the hospice nurses and aides who worked so diligently to take care of Phyllis and her family on her final journey.