Former State Senator and Franklin County Judge-Executive Fred
Bradley died at Thomson Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky today at the age of 85.
Services are pending at Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.
Update:
Fred Franklin Bradley, 85, passed away Friday, May 20, 2016, at
Thomas-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky.
Mr Bradley was born April 26, 1932 to James LaMarr and Lasca Lemon
Bradley, Fred grew up in Providence.
He graduated from the University of Kentucky, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism in 1953, when he was designated as Distinguished
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corp Graduate.
Following his graduation , he reported for active duty at Lackland AFB,
Texas and other bases until 1956, when he joined the Kentucky Air
National Guard and returned to the University of Kentucky to study law and received a Juris Doctorate degree in 1959.
General Bradley was involved with the military for over thirty- six years,
including over four years of extended active duty with the United States
Air Force and more than thirty years in the Air National Guard.
He was discharged from the Kentucky Air National Guard on April 28, 1991, and assigned to the Retired Reserve.
During his distinguished civilian career, he was a practicing attorney,
a former Franklin County Judge, and served as a Kentucky State Senator for eighteen years.
His passion was his farm- breeding, training and racing thoroughbred horses, a love passed on to his children .
He was a member of Church of the Ascension - Episcopal .
He was preceded in death by the love of his life, Bettye Carol Fryman
Bradley and his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Kay, son, Stephen L. ( his children, Miles, Job), son, William, "Buff" ( his children Kory, Drew, and Jett),
daughter, Anne, ( her children, Sandra, Tyler and Bradley),
and Fred's great- grandchildren , Emelyn and Grace, daughter, ( her children Hunter, Forest and Gunnison),
Fred's sister, Sara, and Fred's step-sons, Gary, Charles and Benjamin .
Funeral service for Mr. Bradley at Church Of The Ascension -Episcopal with Father William Neat and Chaplain Chuck Ellestad officiating .
Interment with military honors will follow in the Frankfort Cemetery.
Arrangements under the direction of Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.
Following " Interview with Fred Bradley, March 2, 2006.
Jan Romond, interviewer for Louie B Nunn Center for oral history ,
University of Kentucky Libraries."
Romond: The following is an unrehearsed interview with former Senator Fred F. Bradley, who represented the Twentieth District of Bullitt, Franklin, Shelby and Spencer counties from 1982 to 2000.
This interview was conducted by Jan Romond for the University of
Kentucky Library , Kentucky Legislative Oral History Project on March
2, 2006, at Mr. Bradley's home in Frankfort.
Mr. Bradley could you tell me where and when you were born and did you grow up there?
Mr. Bradley: Well, no, where I was born-- I hate to admit was in Evansville ,
Indiana; I'm a Hoosier. I don't tell anybody about this, but actually my home was in Providence, Kentucky, west Kentucky, and Evansville was the closest Hospital .
My mother wanted me be be born in the hospital . So I was, uh, in the hospital the first five days of my life in Evansville , Indiana , at five dollars a day. I have the bill. And , uh, I had to ride the ferry, while my mother was pregnant across the river, and, of course I came back --(laughs)-- well on the ferry, uh, because the bridge was not build till 1932 between Evansville and Henderson. So I lived in Providence ,which is about forty miles from Evansville .
Romond: Um-hm.
Mr Bradley: And so , my whole formative years was spent in Providence .
I grew up there, graduated from high school there. I was valedictorian of
1949.
Romond: Um-hm. What was your father's work?
Mr Bradley:He
Bradley died at Thomson Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky today at the age of 85.
Services are pending at Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.
Update:
Fred Franklin Bradley, 85, passed away Friday, May 20, 2016, at
Thomas-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky.
Mr Bradley was born April 26, 1932 to James LaMarr and Lasca Lemon
Bradley, Fred grew up in Providence.
He graduated from the University of Kentucky, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism in 1953, when he was designated as Distinguished
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corp Graduate.
Following his graduation , he reported for active duty at Lackland AFB,
Texas and other bases until 1956, when he joined the Kentucky Air
National Guard and returned to the University of Kentucky to study law and received a Juris Doctorate degree in 1959.
General Bradley was involved with the military for over thirty- six years,
including over four years of extended active duty with the United States
Air Force and more than thirty years in the Air National Guard.
He was discharged from the Kentucky Air National Guard on April 28, 1991, and assigned to the Retired Reserve.
During his distinguished civilian career, he was a practicing attorney,
a former Franklin County Judge, and served as a Kentucky State Senator for eighteen years.
His passion was his farm- breeding, training and racing thoroughbred horses, a love passed on to his children .
He was a member of Church of the Ascension - Episcopal .
He was preceded in death by the love of his life, Bettye Carol Fryman
Bradley and his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Kay, son, Stephen L. ( his children, Miles, Job), son, William, "Buff" ( his children Kory, Drew, and Jett),
daughter, Anne, ( her children, Sandra, Tyler and Bradley),
and Fred's great- grandchildren , Emelyn and Grace, daughter, ( her children Hunter, Forest and Gunnison),
Fred's sister, Sara, and Fred's step-sons, Gary, Charles and Benjamin .
Funeral service for Mr. Bradley at Church Of The Ascension -Episcopal with Father William Neat and Chaplain Chuck Ellestad officiating .
Interment with military honors will follow in the Frankfort Cemetery.
Arrangements under the direction of Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.
Following " Interview with Fred Bradley, March 2, 2006.
Jan Romond, interviewer for Louie B Nunn Center for oral history ,
University of Kentucky Libraries."
Romond: The following is an unrehearsed interview with former Senator Fred F. Bradley, who represented the Twentieth District of Bullitt, Franklin, Shelby and Spencer counties from 1982 to 2000.
This interview was conducted by Jan Romond for the University of
Kentucky Library , Kentucky Legislative Oral History Project on March
2, 2006, at Mr. Bradley's home in Frankfort.
Mr. Bradley could you tell me where and when you were born and did you grow up there?
Mr. Bradley: Well, no, where I was born-- I hate to admit was in Evansville ,
Indiana; I'm a Hoosier. I don't tell anybody about this, but actually my home was in Providence, Kentucky, west Kentucky, and Evansville was the closest Hospital .
My mother wanted me be be born in the hospital . So I was, uh, in the hospital the first five days of my life in Evansville , Indiana , at five dollars a day. I have the bill. And , uh, I had to ride the ferry, while my mother was pregnant across the river, and, of course I came back --(laughs)-- well on the ferry, uh, because the bridge was not build till 1932 between Evansville and Henderson. So I lived in Providence ,which is about forty miles from Evansville .
Romond: Um-hm.
Mr Bradley: And so , my whole formative years was spent in Providence .
I grew up there, graduated from high school there. I was valedictorian of
1949.
Romond: Um-hm. What was your father's work?
Mr Bradley:He
Former State Senator and Franklin County Judge-Executive Fred
Bradley died at Thomson Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky today at the age of 85.
Services are pending at Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.
Update:
Fred Franklin Bradley, 85, passed away Friday, May 20, 2016, at
Thomas-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky.
Mr Bradley was born April 26, 1932 to James LaMarr and Lasca Lemon
Bradley, Fred grew up in Providence.
He graduated from the University of Kentucky, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism in 1953, when he was designated as Distinguished
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corp Graduate.
Following his graduation , he reported for active duty at Lackland AFB,
Texas and other bases until 1956, when he joined the Kentucky Air
National Guard and returned to the University of Kentucky to study law and received a Juris Doctorate degree in 1959.
General Bradley was involved with the military for over thirty- six years,
including over four years of extended active duty with the United States
Air Force and more than thirty years in the Air National Guard.
He was discharged from the Kentucky Air National Guard on April 28, 1991, and assigned to the Retired Reserve.
During his distinguished civilian career, he was a practicing attorney,
a former Franklin County Judge, and served as a Kentucky State Senator for eighteen years.
His passion was his farm- breeding, training and racing thoroughbred horses, a love passed on to his children .
He was a member of Church of the Ascension - Episcopal .
He was preceded in death by the love of his life, Bettye Carol Fryman
Bradley and his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Kay, son, Stephen L. ( his children, Miles, Job), son, William, "Buff" ( his children Kory, Drew, and Jett),
daughter, Anne, ( her children, Sandra, Tyler and Bradley),
and Fred's great- grandchildren , Emelyn and Grace, daughter, ( her children Hunter, Forest and Gunnison),
Fred's sister, Sara, and Fred's step-sons, Gary, Charles and Benjamin .
Funeral service for Mr. Bradley at Church Of The Ascension -Episcopal with Father William Neat and Chaplain Chuck Ellestad officiating .
Interment with military honors will follow in the Frankfort Cemetery.
Arrangements under the direction of Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.
Following " Interview with Fred Bradley, March 2, 2006.
Jan Romond, interviewer for Louie B Nunn Center for oral history ,
University of Kentucky Libraries."
Romond: The following is an unrehearsed interview with former Senator Fred F. Bradley, who represented the Twentieth District of Bullitt, Franklin, Shelby and Spencer counties from 1982 to 2000.
This interview was conducted by Jan Romond for the University of
Kentucky Library , Kentucky Legislative Oral History Project on March
2, 2006, at Mr. Bradley's home in Frankfort.
Mr. Bradley could you tell me where and when you were born and did you grow up there?
Mr. Bradley: Well, no, where I was born-- I hate to admit was in Evansville ,
Indiana; I'm a Hoosier. I don't tell anybody about this, but actually my home was in Providence, Kentucky, west Kentucky, and Evansville was the closest Hospital .
My mother wanted me be be born in the hospital . So I was, uh, in the hospital the first five days of my life in Evansville , Indiana , at five dollars a day. I have the bill. And , uh, I had to ride the ferry, while my mother was pregnant across the river, and, of course I came back --(laughs)-- well on the ferry, uh, because the bridge was not build till 1932 between Evansville and Henderson. So I lived in Providence ,which is about forty miles from Evansville .
Romond: Um-hm.
Mr Bradley: And so , my whole formative years was spent in Providence .
I grew up there, graduated from high school there. I was valedictorian of
1949.
Romond: Um-hm. What was your father's work?
Mr Bradley:He
Bradley died at Thomson Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky today at the age of 85.
Services are pending at Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.
Update:
Fred Franklin Bradley, 85, passed away Friday, May 20, 2016, at
Thomas-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky.
Mr Bradley was born April 26, 1932 to James LaMarr and Lasca Lemon
Bradley, Fred grew up in Providence.
He graduated from the University of Kentucky, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism in 1953, when he was designated as Distinguished
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corp Graduate.
Following his graduation , he reported for active duty at Lackland AFB,
Texas and other bases until 1956, when he joined the Kentucky Air
National Guard and returned to the University of Kentucky to study law and received a Juris Doctorate degree in 1959.
General Bradley was involved with the military for over thirty- six years,
including over four years of extended active duty with the United States
Air Force and more than thirty years in the Air National Guard.
He was discharged from the Kentucky Air National Guard on April 28, 1991, and assigned to the Retired Reserve.
During his distinguished civilian career, he was a practicing attorney,
a former Franklin County Judge, and served as a Kentucky State Senator for eighteen years.
His passion was his farm- breeding, training and racing thoroughbred horses, a love passed on to his children .
He was a member of Church of the Ascension - Episcopal .
He was preceded in death by the love of his life, Bettye Carol Fryman
Bradley and his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Kay, son, Stephen L. ( his children, Miles, Job), son, William, "Buff" ( his children Kory, Drew, and Jett),
daughter, Anne, ( her children, Sandra, Tyler and Bradley),
and Fred's great- grandchildren , Emelyn and Grace, daughter, ( her children Hunter, Forest and Gunnison),
Fred's sister, Sara, and Fred's step-sons, Gary, Charles and Benjamin .
Funeral service for Mr. Bradley at Church Of The Ascension -Episcopal with Father William Neat and Chaplain Chuck Ellestad officiating .
Interment with military honors will follow in the Frankfort Cemetery.
Arrangements under the direction of Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.
Following " Interview with Fred Bradley, March 2, 2006.
Jan Romond, interviewer for Louie B Nunn Center for oral history ,
University of Kentucky Libraries."
Romond: The following is an unrehearsed interview with former Senator Fred F. Bradley, who represented the Twentieth District of Bullitt, Franklin, Shelby and Spencer counties from 1982 to 2000.
This interview was conducted by Jan Romond for the University of
Kentucky Library , Kentucky Legislative Oral History Project on March
2, 2006, at Mr. Bradley's home in Frankfort.
Mr. Bradley could you tell me where and when you were born and did you grow up there?
Mr. Bradley: Well, no, where I was born-- I hate to admit was in Evansville ,
Indiana; I'm a Hoosier. I don't tell anybody about this, but actually my home was in Providence, Kentucky, west Kentucky, and Evansville was the closest Hospital .
My mother wanted me be be born in the hospital . So I was, uh, in the hospital the first five days of my life in Evansville , Indiana , at five dollars a day. I have the bill. And , uh, I had to ride the ferry, while my mother was pregnant across the river, and, of course I came back --(laughs)-- well on the ferry, uh, because the bridge was not build till 1932 between Evansville and Henderson. So I lived in Providence ,which is about forty miles from Evansville .
Romond: Um-hm.
Mr Bradley: And so , my whole formative years was spent in Providence .
I grew up there, graduated from high school there. I was valedictorian of
1949.
Romond: Um-hm. What was your father's work?
Mr Bradley:He
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