Katherine Goebel

Female 1883 - 1954  (70 years)

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  • Name Katherine Goebel 
    Birth 23 Sep 1883  New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 19 Feb 1954  Jackson, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 20 Feb 1954  St Patrick Cem#2, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I11765  Clan Montgomery
    Last Modified 4 Nov 2016 

    Family William James Bradley Sr,   b. 16 Oct 1878, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Dec 1943, 3606 Chestnut St, His Home, New Orleans, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Marriage New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    >1. Louise Elizabeth Bradley,   b. 13 May 1904, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Mar 1988, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    Family ID F3796  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Dec 2015 

  • Notes 
    • 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."