Beverly C. Bradley

passed away peacefully on Monday evening, April 16, 2012 at the Village Glen

Dementia Care Unit of John Knox Village, near her home. She was born on June 7,

1925 in Wellsville, New York, the oldest child of Clarence R. and Alice Gardner

Christman.

Beverly graduated from Wellsville High School with its Class of 1943, and studied

merchandising at Syracuse University, where she met the companion with whom she

would share the rest of her life, John D. "Bus" Bradley of Bolivar, New York. They were

married in Wellsville on April 21, 1946.

Making their home in Bolivar, Bev was a member of the Guild of the Episcopal Church

of Our Savior, the Bolivar Country Club, and the Cuba Lake Yacht Club. She served as

a Cub Scout den mother, a Brownie troop leader, and enjoyed golf and skiing. She was

an original member of "Fahrner's Fearless Followers," a skiing and social club based in

Ellicottville. She was a renowned cook, enjoyed entertaining and, in her earlier years,

playing bridge. In 1983, she and her husband relocated to Sea Ranch Lakes, FL,

where they lived until recently, spending the warm weather months at their second

home on Cuba Lake.

Bev is survived by her husband, and by three children: George C. Bradley of Miami

Shores, Florida; Marcia D. Bradley of Madison, Wisconsin; and Deborah B. Arzberger of

Asheville, NC. She was predeceased by her first child, Mary Priscilla. Bev is also

survived by both of her sisters, Joanne "Pidge" Daily of Wellsville, and Nancy Cotton of

Covington, Louisiana; eight grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and three

nieces.

There will be no visitation. Internment, in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Bolivar, New York, will

be at the convenience of the family. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's

Association, the Bolivar Free Library, Bolivar's Pioneer Oil Museum, or to any

organization donors consider appropriate.