JANE BRADY
Jane A. Brady, 88, of Las Vegas, passed away Friday, May 29, 2009. She was born July 25, 1920, in Sparks, and raised in Roseville, Calif.
She married Earl M. Brady in 1942, and entered the Women's Army Corps in August 1943, when Earl was called up for duty in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
After basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, Jane spent the next 21 months overseas as a member of the 6718th WAC Headquarters Platoon. The 6718th briefly supported communications centers in Casablanca, Morocco and Tunis, Tunisia, before relocating to Caserta, Italy, where Jane served until demobilization in October 1945, as a private first class. Her overseas wartime service was remarkable in that only about five percent of the 150,000 women in the Army served in the European Theater of Operations.
Post war, Jane lived in the U.S. and overseas with her U.S. Air Force husband and two sons and eventually settled in Sacramento, Calif., upon Earl's retirement. She then obtained a college degree and became a senior supervisor for the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs, where she was instrumental in establishing the smog check program in the state.
She returned to Nevada, driving herself from Sacramento to Las Vegas at the age of 84, where she was active in the Spanish Oaks Mah-Jongg League and led an active social life before her death.
Jane is survived by two sons, Donald Brady of Las Vegas, and Robert Brady of Petaluma, Calif.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She will be greatly missed by her fellow service mates, family members and many friends. A formal military service and private memorial service for family and friends will be held at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., this summer, where Jane will be interred with her husband.
Published in Las Vegas Review-Journal on 6/6/2009
Jane A. Brady, 88, of Las Vegas, passed away Friday, May 29, 2009. She was born July 25, 1920, in Sparks, and raised in Roseville, Calif.
She married Earl M. Brady in 1942, and entered the Women's Army Corps in August 1943, when Earl was called up for duty in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
After basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, Jane spent the next 21 months overseas as a member of the 6718th WAC Headquarters Platoon. The 6718th briefly supported communications centers in Casablanca, Morocco and Tunis, Tunisia, before relocating to Caserta, Italy, where Jane served until demobilization in October 1945, as a private first class. Her overseas wartime service was remarkable in that only about five percent of the 150,000 women in the Army served in the European Theater of Operations.
Post war, Jane lived in the U.S. and overseas with her U.S. Air Force husband and two sons and eventually settled in Sacramento, Calif., upon Earl's retirement. She then obtained a college degree and became a senior supervisor for the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs, where she was instrumental in establishing the smog check program in the state.
She returned to Nevada, driving herself from Sacramento to Las Vegas at the age of 84, where she was active in the Spanish Oaks Mah-Jongg League and led an active social life before her death.
Jane is survived by two sons, Donald Brady of Las Vegas, and Robert Brady of Petaluma, Calif.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She will be greatly missed by her fellow service mates, family members and many friends. A formal military service and private memorial service for family and friends will be held at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., this summer, where Jane will be interred with her husband.
Published in Las Vegas Review-Journal on 6/6/2009
JANE BRADY
Jane A. Brady, 88, of Las Vegas, passed away Friday, May 29, 2009. She was born July 25, 1920, in Sparks, and raised in Roseville, Calif.
She married Earl M. Brady in 1942, and entered the Women's Army Corps in August 1943, when Earl was called up for duty in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
After basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, Jane spent the next 21 months overseas as a member of the 6718th WAC Headquarters Platoon. The 6718th briefly supported communications centers in Casablanca, Morocco and Tunis, Tunisia, before relocating to Caserta, Italy, where Jane served until demobilization in October 1945, as a private first class. Her overseas wartime service was remarkable in that only about five percent of the 150,000 women in the Army served in the European Theater of Operations.
Post war, Jane lived in the U.S. and overseas with her U.S. Air Force husband and two sons and eventually settled in Sacramento, Calif., upon Earl's retirement. She then obtained a college degree and became a senior supervisor for the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs, where she was instrumental in establishing the smog check program in the state.
She returned to Nevada, driving herself from Sacramento to Las Vegas at the age of 84, where she was active in the Spanish Oaks Mah-Jongg League and led an active social life before her death.
Jane is survived by two sons, Donald Brady of Las Vegas, and Robert Brady of Petaluma, Calif.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She will be greatly missed by her fellow service mates, family members and many friends. A formal military service and private memorial service for family and friends will be held at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., this summer, where Jane will be interred with her husband.
Published in Las Vegas Review-Journal on 6/6/2009
Jane A. Brady, 88, of Las Vegas, passed away Friday, May 29, 2009. She was born July 25, 1920, in Sparks, and raised in Roseville, Calif.
She married Earl M. Brady in 1942, and entered the Women's Army Corps in August 1943, when Earl was called up for duty in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
After basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, Jane spent the next 21 months overseas as a member of the 6718th WAC Headquarters Platoon. The 6718th briefly supported communications centers in Casablanca, Morocco and Tunis, Tunisia, before relocating to Caserta, Italy, where Jane served until demobilization in October 1945, as a private first class. Her overseas wartime service was remarkable in that only about five percent of the 150,000 women in the Army served in the European Theater of Operations.
Post war, Jane lived in the U.S. and overseas with her U.S. Air Force husband and two sons and eventually settled in Sacramento, Calif., upon Earl's retirement. She then obtained a college degree and became a senior supervisor for the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs, where she was instrumental in establishing the smog check program in the state.
She returned to Nevada, driving herself from Sacramento to Las Vegas at the age of 84, where she was active in the Spanish Oaks Mah-Jongg League and led an active social life before her death.
Jane is survived by two sons, Donald Brady of Las Vegas, and Robert Brady of Petaluma, Calif.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She will be greatly missed by her fellow service mates, family members and many friends. A formal military service and private memorial service for family and friends will be held at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., this summer, where Jane will be interred with her husband.
Published in Las Vegas Review-Journal on 6/6/2009
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