Patsy Bradley

Patsy Speers Bradley, 86, of Longwood, Florida, passed away Sunday, May 31, 2009 in Hospice of the Comforter, Altamonte Springs, Florida. A daughter of the late Stephen McClain Speers and Minerva Mitchell Speers, she was born in N. Charleroi on September 25, 1922. She graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1945 and was president of the Chatham Alumni Association from 1968-1970. She married Charles C. Bradley of Brownsville, PA on August 3, 1945 and lived in Drexel Hill PA and King of Prussia PA in 1952-1994. For 18 years, she and her husband owned and operated the John Poteat Collection in Haverford, PA and The Pear Tree in Bryn Mawr, PA. She was an active member of the Drexel Hill United Methodist Church and a volunteer guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. An avid golfer from the age of 50, she was a member of Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square PA, the Bay Hill Club in Orlando FL, and the Sweetwater Golf Club in Sweetwater FL. A resident of Florida since 1994, she and her husband resided in Orlando until 2005, when they moved to Village on the Green, a Life Care Retirement Community in Longwood. In addition to her husband, survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Pamela Bradley and Richard Pabst of McLean, VA, two sons and one daughter-in-law, Mark and Judi Bradley of Berwyn, PA and C. Stephen Bradley of Orlando, FL, five grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Torrance Etheridge and Betty Didrichsen and one brother, Stephen Speers. Cemetery chapel services will be held on June 6 at 10:00 a.m. in Belle Vernon Cemetery with Rev. David Zona officiating. Memorial contributions may be made in her name to Chatham University, Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15232 or to the Brede Wilkins Scholarship Foundation at Village on the Green, 500 Village Place, Longwood, FL 32779. The Ferguson Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., 724-929-5300, 700 Broad Avenue, Belle Vernon is handling arrangements.

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Patsy Bradley

May 31, 2009