Joseph Michael Brady 1919 - 2010
WILEY, BRADY, OLSON, BURVANT, MICHELS, MUNTEAN, DUCKWORTH, SNIFFEN, NOLAN, KRINGLEN
Posted By: N. Wagner (email)
Date: 9/22/2010 at 19:16:57
Joseph M. Brady, 91, of Troutdale, Ore., formerly of Hawkeye and Oelwein, Iowa, died Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, at his home from complications of dementia.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Oelwein, with burial to follow in Woodlawn Cemetery, Oelwein.
Joseph Michael Brady and his twin sister, Mary Josephine, were born Jan. 11, 1919, in Noonan, N.D., to Thomas and Anna Marie (Wiley) Brady.
An all-around athlete as a youth, Joe won the North Dakota state championship in the javelin as a junior in high school. Before Joe's senior year, his family moved to a farm in Aurora.
After graduating from Sacred Heart High School in Oelwein in 1937, Jo attended Upper Iowa University on a football scholarship, graduating in 1941 with a degree in history. He participated in track, basketball, baseball, and was a four-year letterman in football. Joe was elected to the Upper Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame in 1992.
In October 1941, Joe enlisted in the U.S. Navy and soon thereafter became a member of the Marine Corps. He served four years, flying transport planes in the South Pacific as a member of a transport squadron based in New Caledonia. He was credited with flying 110 air combat missions, for which he was awarded five Distinguished Flying Crosses and 17 Air Medals. In 1944, Joe received an honorable discharge with the rank of captain. In 1945, he retired from the reserves as a major.
On June 14, 1944, Joe was united in marriage with Janet Lorraine Olson at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Oelwein. They moved to Minneapolis, where Joe flew commercial flights for three years for Northwest Airlines and for one year as a private pilot.
In 1950, Joe and his family moved to a farm near Hawkeye. In 1954, he was named an Iowa Master Swine Producer. He also raised Black Angus cattle. Joe farmed there until 1976, when he and Janet moved to Buffalo, Mo., to continue farming. In 1980 they moved to Urbandale.
After Janet's death on Aug. 30, 1980, Joe moved to Oelwein to be close to his siblings.
On Sept. 13, 1983, Joe married Lou Burvant in Wisconsin. After she died in 1989, Joe moved back to Oelwein. From 2006-2009, he resided with his daughters in Colorado and Oregon. He moved to Troutdale, Ore., in May 2010.
In addition to his spouses, Joe was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers Thomas, Raymond and Clement Brady; and his sisters Mary Michels and Zita Muntean.
Survivors include two daughters, Janice Ann Duckworth of Troutdale, Ore., and Mary Jo (Patrick) Sniffen of Broomfield, Colo.; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Irene Nolan and Cathryn Kringlen, both of Oelwein.
Source: Fayette County Union - 14 September 2010
Fayette Obituaries maintained by Constance Diamond.
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