George Braley, Co-founder of Auto Dealership, Dies
George A. Braley, the 105-year-old co-founder of the Braley and Graham Buick dealership in Portland, died Saturday in his Portland home. Private family services will he held with private entombment in Finley's Sunset Hills Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Braley joined longtime partner A.B. Graham in the automobile business on Jan. 2, 1921, when they formed a Dodge dealership in Sioux City, Iowa. Previously Braley was in the banking business in Sioux Falls, S.D., and became a partner in an automobile agency there before moving to Iowa.
Braley said in a 1971 interview that he and Graham were so busy in 1921, "we didn't get around to celebrating until April."
They left Iowa for Portland the next year to get out of the agricultural depression that hit the Midwest after World War I. They brought the Dodge dealership with them, but on June 1, 1931, they switched to a Buick distributor-dealership. After 67 years, the dealership is still under family ownership. Braley was born in Sioux Falls. He was active in Portland and Oregon automobile associations.
He served on the first General Motors President's Council, when Alfred P. Sloan was president of GM. Long a winter resident of Palm Springs, Calif., Braley was appointed an advisory member of the Palm Springs Indian Council during the 1950's by Douglas McKay, then U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
Braley was a Shriner, and a member of the Portland Rotary Club, the Arlington Club and Waverley Country Club.
Survivors include a son, Warren of Portland, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family suggests that remembrances be contributions to a favorite charity.
George A. Braley, the 105-year-old co-founder of the Braley and Graham Buick dealership in Portland, died Saturday in his Portland home. Private family services will he held with private entombment in Finley's Sunset Hills Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Braley joined longtime partner A.B. Graham in the automobile business on Jan. 2, 1921, when they formed a Dodge dealership in Sioux City, Iowa. Previously Braley was in the banking business in Sioux Falls, S.D., and became a partner in an automobile agency there before moving to Iowa.
Braley said in a 1971 interview that he and Graham were so busy in 1921, "we didn't get around to celebrating until April."
They left Iowa for Portland the next year to get out of the agricultural depression that hit the Midwest after World War I. They brought the Dodge dealership with them, but on June 1, 1931, they switched to a Buick distributor-dealership. After 67 years, the dealership is still under family ownership. Braley was born in Sioux Falls. He was active in Portland and Oregon automobile associations.
He served on the first General Motors President's Council, when Alfred P. Sloan was president of GM. Long a winter resident of Palm Springs, Calif., Braley was appointed an advisory member of the Palm Springs Indian Council during the 1950's by Douglas McKay, then U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
Braley was a Shriner, and a member of the Portland Rotary Club, the Arlington Club and Waverley Country Club.
Survivors include a son, Warren of Portland, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family suggests that remembrances be contributions to a favorite charity.
George Braley, Co-founder of Auto Dealership, Dies
George A. Braley, the 105-year-old co-founder of the Braley and Graham Buick dealership in Portland, died Saturday in his Portland home. Private family services will he held with private entombment in Finley's Sunset Hills Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Braley joined longtime partner A.B. Graham in the automobile business on Jan. 2, 1921, when they formed a Dodge dealership in Sioux City, Iowa. Previously Braley was in the banking business in Sioux Falls, S.D., and became a partner in an automobile agency there before moving to Iowa.
Braley said in a 1971 interview that he and Graham were so busy in 1921, "we didn't get around to celebrating until April."
They left Iowa for Portland the next year to get out of the agricultural depression that hit the Midwest after World War I. They brought the Dodge dealership with them, but on June 1, 1931, they switched to a Buick distributor-dealership. After 67 years, the dealership is still under family ownership. Braley was born in Sioux Falls. He was active in Portland and Oregon automobile associations.
He served on the first General Motors President's Council, when Alfred P. Sloan was president of GM. Long a winter resident of Palm Springs, Calif., Braley was appointed an advisory member of the Palm Springs Indian Council during the 1950's by Douglas McKay, then U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
Braley was a Shriner, and a member of the Portland Rotary Club, the Arlington Club and Waverley Country Club.
Survivors include a son, Warren of Portland, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family suggests that remembrances be contributions to a favorite charity.
George A. Braley, the 105-year-old co-founder of the Braley and Graham Buick dealership in Portland, died Saturday in his Portland home. Private family services will he held with private entombment in Finley's Sunset Hills Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Braley joined longtime partner A.B. Graham in the automobile business on Jan. 2, 1921, when they formed a Dodge dealership in Sioux City, Iowa. Previously Braley was in the banking business in Sioux Falls, S.D., and became a partner in an automobile agency there before moving to Iowa.
Braley said in a 1971 interview that he and Graham were so busy in 1921, "we didn't get around to celebrating until April."
They left Iowa for Portland the next year to get out of the agricultural depression that hit the Midwest after World War I. They brought the Dodge dealership with them, but on June 1, 1931, they switched to a Buick distributor-dealership. After 67 years, the dealership is still under family ownership. Braley was born in Sioux Falls. He was active in Portland and Oregon automobile associations.
He served on the first General Motors President's Council, when Alfred P. Sloan was president of GM. Long a winter resident of Palm Springs, Calif., Braley was appointed an advisory member of the Palm Springs Indian Council during the 1950's by Douglas McKay, then U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
Braley was a Shriner, and a member of the Portland Rotary Club, the Arlington Club and Waverley Country Club.
Survivors include a son, Warren of Portland, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family suggests that remembrances be contributions to a favorite charity.
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