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April 5, 2007
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April 10, 2007(Posted April 9, 2007)
Elward Thomas Brady Jr., 80, a native of New Orleans, LA. and resident of Bayou Dularge, LA., died Friday, April 6, 2007.
Visitation will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, April 9, 2007 and from 9 a.m. to funeral time Tuesday at Chauvin Funeral Home. Religious service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home chapel, with interment at Magnolia Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara Robichaux Brady; one daughter, Ellie Brady Skillman; one son, Timothy Patrick Brady and wife, Joyce Naquin Brady; one sister, Joycelyn Brady Cook; and five grandchildren, Bennett Brady and Piper Lea Skillman and Patrick Joseph, Caroline Claire and Trent Thomas Brady.
He was preceded in death by his father, Elward Thomas Brady; his mother, Elmire Louise Kranz Brady; and one brother, Ray Richard Brady.
He represented District 52 in the state House of Representatives, and received the Louisiana Cross of Merit for his efforts to help save Morgan City during the flood of 1973.
He founded Brady Diesel, L.L.C., a Houma-based diesel engine repair company, after he retired as president of Brady Engine Co. of Houma.
He was a founding president of the Terrebonne Savings and Loan Association and a former member of the board of directors of First National Bankshares and First National Bank of Houma. He was also a former president and member of the board of directors of First Export Corp.
He was a former member of the board of commissioners of Hospital Service District 1 and chairman of its budget and finance committee; a former chairman and member of the South Louisiana Toll Road Authority; a former member of the Terrebonne Parish Welfare Board; former chairman of Radio Free Europe, Louisiana; a former member of the Committee on the Bicentennial of the Constitution, Judicial Conference of the United States; a former member of the LSU Foundation; and a former member of the board of directors of the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce.
He was a member of First United Methodist Church of Houma; the Unity Lodge No. 267, F&AM; and a member of the Houma Rotary Club.
He was a charter member of the Houma Terrebonne Carnival Club, a former president and member of the board of directors of the Terreanians Carnival Club, having served as king of the Krewe of Terreanians in 1973, and a former member of the Krewe of Louisianans Carnival Club in Washington, D.C.
He was a founding member of the board of directors and former president of the Whiskey Pass Silver King Association, and a former member of the Terrebonne Sportsman League. He also served in various civic and social organizations on the local and state level.
He was a member of the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, with service in the Pacific theater. He was a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post No. 3700.
In lieu of flowers, donations should be made to the Terrebonne Parish Library or St. Jude’s in Memphis, Tenn.
Chauvin Funeral Home will be in charge of the arrangements.
