FRANCES MAUDIE MILES BRADLEY

FRANCES MAUDIE MILES BRADLEY Frances Maudie Miles Bradley was born February 1, 1941, to Eddie Rene Culpepper and William Monroe Miles in Phenix City, Alabama. She passed from this life in Bellingham, Washington, at the age of 84. Frances was raised in Columbus, Georgia, where she attended public school. On August 5, 1959, she eloped to Alabama with Jonas Edwin Bradley and married him at the home of a judge who worked in the Columbus, Georgia, courts but lived in Phenix City, Alabama. The law in Georgia required that males must be 21 years of age to marry in the state. Jonas was only 19 at the time while Frances was of legal age. The judge offered them the opportunity to marry in Alabama where they would both be of legal age. Jonas was completing basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and shortly after their marriage he was shipped overseas and stationed in Germany for three years. Upon Jonas' return from military service, he and Frances moved to Oklahoma where they raised their family and lived for 63 years until Jonas' passing in 2023. Frances then moved to live with her daughter in Washington state. Frances was an authentic person. You always knew where you stood with her, there was no superficiality. She spent her life focused on her husband and together raising their children. She was present at their welding and machine shop business daily and sat in her wheelchair near the fire stove and answered the phone while Jonas ("Edwin") worked. She knew every customer and what job belonged to whom. Wherever Edwin went, Frances was by his side they were always together. Frances lived an active lifestyle. Some of the many activities she experienced in her life included riding on the back of Edwin's motorcycle, riding in motorboats, camping, canoeing and rafting down the Illinois River in Oklahoma and Stanislaus River in California, and riding dune buggies at Little Sahara. She was always included in every fun activity. Even when she started to have trouble moving about, Edwin and their children always figured out a way to include her in everything. Frances enjoyed Sunday drives. She often would say she and Edwin drove a 200-mile round trip every Sunday just to go see something that was for sale whether it was a piece of machinery for the shop, a boat, a dune buggy or a motorhome that needed restoration. That Sunday drive always ended with a meal at some of their favorite restaurants like the Cracker Barrel or even a Waffle House. Frances had an amazing memory and was one of the most observant people you would ever know. She never kept a call list on her phone. She dialed everything from her memory up until her very last days. She observed people and situations and remembered the details. Her niece once told her that she would make the best security guard. Frances was preceded in death by her parents, Eddie and William Miles; her half-sister, Mavis Miles; her husband, Jonas Edwin Bradley; and sons, Norman Wayne and Charles Edwin Bradley. She is survived by her three daughters, Carolyn Brumley and her husband Stephen of Ardmore; Donna Negranza and her husband Cris of Anacortes, WA; and Peggy Bradley Ngai and her husband Danny of Sunnyvale, CA; grandchildren, Larry Robertson, Johnny Robertson, Frances Negranza Schmidt, Erin Negranza, Nathan Negranza, Gillian Negranza, Samantha Bradley, Matthew Ngai, Franklin Ngai, and Thomas Ngai; great-grandchildren, Lincoln Robertson, Emma Adcock, Easton Adcock, Haylie Guess, Vivian Woods, Addalee Woods, and Odetta Robertson Visitation is scheduled for Sunday, November 30, 2025, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Craddock Funeral Home. Graveside services are scheduled for Monday, December 1, 2025, at 1 p.m. at Lakeview Cemetery in Marietta, OK. Online condolences can be made at www.craddockfuneralhome.com