BRADLEY, Leona VanHyfte - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Mrs. Leona Van Hyfte Bradley, 65, a former area resident who has lived at Crestview, Florida, since 1945, died Dec. 14, 1978, at the Okaloosa County Memorial Hospital at Crestview. Born Feb. 26, 1913, in Attica, she was the daughter of Charles and Rosa Verhey Van Hyfte. She was married May 29, 1942, to Wayne Bradley who survives. Mrs. Bradley resided in the home of Frank Y. Shelby in Covington while attending Covington High School. She graduated in 1932 and attended the St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing in Danville, where she graduated in 1935. She had been employed as a nurse at the Danville Veterans Hospital and retired in 1973 from the Elgin Air Force Base Hospital in Florida. Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Cheri) Livingston of Grand Junction, Colo., and Mrs. Sam (Barbara) Brown of Crestview; a brother John W. Van Hyfte of Attica; four sisters, Mrs. Floyd (Alice) Cooper and Mrs. Woodrow (Clara) Wolfe, both of Attica, Mrs. John (Janet) Keyes of Veedersburg rural route and Mrs. Harold (Dorothy) Crowder of Covington rural route; and four grandchildren. Services at Crestview, followed by cremation. The family has requested that memorials be in the form of donations to the Van Bradley Nursing Scholarship Fund, to be left with the Whitehurst Funeral Home.