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Martha Rose Bradley

Gloucester Township, New Jersey - Martha Rose (Laurelli) Bradley, on July 7, 2018, of Gloucester Twp., NJ. Age 84.

Wife of:
the late Francis Michael Bradley

Mother of:
-Claire (Joseph) Paugh,
-Martha Wharton, and
-Sandra (Troy) Rehrig

Grandmother of:
-Michael Alan,
-Samantha Marie,
-Christopher Thomas,
-Natalie Rose,
-Stephanie Marie,
-Kathryn Julia and
-James Bailey, III

Martha was a 1951 graduate of West Philadelphia Catholic Girls' High School. She began teaching piano at age 17 and worked as an office manager at The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and then Lukens, Savage, and Washburn Insurance Brokers until she "retired" in 1962 to begin raising her family.

In 1956 Martha's love of the organ and her strong Catholic faith led her to an additional career as a church organist and choir director. She began at St. Richard of Chichester in south Philadelphia, where she remained for 25 years. She became organist and choir director, then Director of Music at St. Maria Goretti Church in Runnemede, New Jersey and remained there 32 years until she retired in 2017.

She attended college part-time at Glassboro State while raising her daughters, caring for her aging mother and teaching as many as 40 concurrent piano students. She proudly graduated with a BA in Music in 1983 after performing her senior organ solo recital and began teaching Art, Music, and English and directing the school musicals at Gloucester Catholic High School.

Martha was an active member of Holy Child Parish, St. Maria Goretti Church where she served on the Liturgical Committee and was instrumental in the RCIA program. She was also proud to be the longest resident (since 1969) of her treasured Broadmoor development and a founding member and past president of The Women's Club of Broadmoor.

SERVICES
Viewing at:
Gardner Funeral Home
126 S. Black Horse Pike
Runnemede, NJ 08078
(856)939-2095
www.GardnerFuneralHome.com

Funeral Mass at:
Holy Child Parish, St. Maria Goretti Church
Runnemede, NJ

Interment Greenmount Cemetery, Hammonton

DONATIONS
Donations may be made in Martha's name to:
Gloucester Catholic High School
333 Ridgeway Street
Gloucester City, NJ 08030

Published in Courier-Post on July 10, 2018
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