On Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, the architect Robert M. Bradbury Jr. Brad to nearly all who knew him died shortly after his wife Monica kissed him goo
Apr 27, 2021 On Easter, April 3, the architect Robert M. Bradbury Jr. Brad to nearly all who knew him died shortly after his wife Monica kissed him goodbye. Brad, 96, was living in Glens Falls Center, a nursing home in Glens Falls, where he spent the last three months of his life. Born and raised in West Texas, Brad spent the first 10 years living in a tent along the Mexico border outside Laredo, where his dad was an oil field superintendent and his mother a homemaker. In 1934, the family, which now included his sister Dotty, moved to Kilgore, a big new East Texas oilfield boom town. Founded four years after oil was discovered there, Kilgore soon became known as the “City of Stars,” after the lights on top of many oil derricks. By the time Brad graduated from Kilgore High School in 1941, 1,200 derricks had been erected within the city limits.