Mr. Alvin Bradley Sr., 104, Railway Worker Who Sang Gospel Solos By Charles Salter StoffWriter Mr. Alvin E. Bradley Sr. of Tucker, a retired section foreman for Seaboard Railway Co., who sang gospel solos in Baptist churches for almost a century, died of heart failure Tuesday at Tucker Nursing Center. He was 104. The funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. today at Lowndes and McLane Funeral Home in Tucker with burial at Floral Hills Memory Gardens. Mr. Bradley worked for the Seaboard Railway Co. in Georgia and other southeastern states and retired almost 40 years ago. His favorite gospel solo was "Life's Railway to Heaven." Alvin Edwin Bradley Sr. was born Nov. 19, 1884, in Jackson County, Ga., the son of Thomas Bradley, a farmer, and Angie Rebecca Bradley. Ben A McLane, managing director of Lowndes and McLane Funeral Home in Tucker, said, "You could set your watch or clock. on Sunday morning when you saw Mr. Bradley walking to the Tucker Baptist Church. He was still walking to church when he was 95." A daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Melo of Tucker, said her father did not drink alcoholic beverages or use tobacco. She recalled that her father sang a solo at the Tucker Baptist Church when he was almost 100 years old. His wife, Maggie Wages Bradley, died in 1969 at the age of 84. They had 11 children, including a son who was killed during the Korean War. Surviving are six sons, Herman Bradley of Seattle, Wash., Robert Bradley of Cloudland, Ga., Alvin Bradley Jr. of Winder, Ga., Jesse Bradley of Bakersfield, Calif., Ansel Bradley of Ellenwood, and Lyman Bradley of Winter Park, Fla.; four daughters, Beatrice Higginbotham of Fayetteville, Sarah Letchas of Alpharetta, Dorothy Melo of Tucker, and Doris Nicolo of Oveida, Fla.; a brother, Cline Bradley of Stone Mountain; 20 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.