Brad Banky

Brad Banky

AGE: 49 • Houston, TX

Special people do come along and grace our lives. Brad Banky was such a person. We had the joy of knowing, and now the sorrow of losing, this special person.

Over his 49 years, Brad was many things to many people in many places. He jammed a lot into his life and into ours. Born in Chicago, he decided at age four months to move to Morristown, New Jersey to be closer to the world's financial center. First came Morristown High and Virginia Tech before getting on with it on Wall Street, followed by trading roles for major financial companies in Philadelphia, Fort Lee, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, back in Chicago, then Houston, which became home. He made, kept and cherished an army of friends along a road that the ugly C made too short.

Most important to Brad was his family. He leaves his wife Gemma, his two light-up sons Conor and Kevin, his parents, his brother, his nieces and nephews. He joins his beloved big sister, who also left us way too soon.

We who knew him will laugh with and about him. Unlike Brad who never dealt in understatements, we say in understatement we will remember him. He was a special person.

A memorial service was held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 16, 2016, at Second Baptist Church West Campus with Rev. Keith Carmichael officiating. Those wishing to make memorial gifts may do so to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486, Houston, TX 77210-4486.

Funeral services held under the direction of

Schmidt Funeral Home

1344 W. Grand Parkway South ~ Katy, Texas 77494 ~ (281) 391-2424