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- According to the 1880 census she was born in October 1883. It also showes she was a sales lady.
Her nickname was "Kattie" to all her family and friends.
As a young woman she loved to dance and to go dancing especially at beer gardens, such as the one that was on Walnut St. between the river and Magazine St., which backed up to Audubon Park baseball fields, just behind the Hill Store. She married William James Bradley. She became a Catholic after her children were raised, but had studied the catechism so she could teach her children. She was an Lutheran until her baptism in the Catholic faith. She loved to cook and care for her husband, children and grandchildren. She suffered , probably from Alzhiemers and general hardening of the arteries and veins which finally killed her. She lived with her son William,Jr. at 3426 Chestnut St., until December 7, 1948.
On December 8, 1948, she was placed in the East Louisiana Hospital, Jackson La., where she died on Feb. 19, 1954 from Arterio sclerotic heart disease and Cerebral Arteriosclerosis at 12:10 pm. She was in the hospital 5 years, 1 month and 26 days. She was then buried on Feb. 20, 1954 in St. Patrick Cem. #2, N.O.,La. in the Walsh-Bradley tomb.
The following obituary appeared in one of the New Orleans Newspapers-
"BRADLEY- Of 3426 Chestnut Street, on Friday, February 19th, 1954 at 12:10 o'clock p.m., Catherine Goebel, wife of the late William J. Bradley; mother of Mrs. George Montgomery Jr., William J. Jr., and Owen J.
Bradley, Mary L. Bradley and the late Margaret Pearl Bradley; also survived by five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
"Private funeral will take place from the home of
Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp, inc. 4127 South Claiborne Ave. near Milan St., on Saturday morning, February 20, 1954, at 9:30 o'clock, followed by a requiem Mass at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church.
"Interment in St. Patrick Cemetery No. 2."
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