Gleenda Jean Bradley

With her loving family at her bedside, Mrs. Gleenda Bradley age 84 of the Difficult Community, made her transition from her earthly walk to her heavenly home at 8:53 p.m. Thursday evening September 25, 2025 at the family’s Dog Branch Road South home. She was pronounced deceased at 11:21 p.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston, Tennessee.

On Monday morning September 29th Mrs. Bradley was transferred from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home to the Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home in Odessa, Texas where the family will receive friends on Friday evening October 3rd from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Graveside services and interment will be conducted Saturday morning October 4th at 10 a.m. at the Ector County Cemetery Peaceful Gardens.

She was born Gleenda Jean Mathis in Brownfield in Terry, County, Texas on July 1, 1941 and was the oldest of six children of the late Gleen Alfred Mathis who died in 1984 and Emma Jean Murray Mathis who died in 1968.

Siblings preceding her in death were Judy Ann Fahrlender who died in 1998, Jerry Don Mathis who died in 2011 and Tommy Joe Mathis who died in 2021.

She attended Brownfield High School in Brownfield, Texas.

In Brownfield, Texas on September 10, 1964, she was united in marriage to William Key Bradley Jr. who preceded her in death in 2014.

She suffered the loss of a daughter, Karen Elizabeth Bradley Tipton in 1986.

Besides rearing a large family, she was employed by the Odessa American Newspaper and delivered for many other newspapers.

She had made her home in Brownfield, Texas, Monahans, Texas and Odessa, Texas before relocating to Goodlettsville, Tennessee.

On November 20, 2016 she moved with her family to their Difficult Community farm.

Surviving are her three daughters, Ms. Linda Rea Beshears of the Difficult Community, Mrs. Jean Bradley Gerlach and husband Brian of Midland, Texas, and Mrs. Melissa Sue Atkinson and husband Boyd of the Difficult Community and with whom she made her home; son, Jerry Don Bradley of Murfreesboro; sister, Mrs. Cynthia Jane Finke and husband Alan of Abilene, Texas; one brother, Mr. John Wayne Mathis of Brownfield, Texas; one brother in law, Mr. Harold Fahrlender of Santa Anna, TX; one sister in law, Ms. Debbie Mathis of Sundown, TX; twelve grandchildren, twenty eight great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren and a large extended family.