Obituaries : Judy C. Bradley; 53-Year Resident

Judy Carlson Bradley, a 53-year Ventura County resident who had worked as a stock clerk at the Point Mugu Navy base, has died. She was 94.

Born Sept. 6, 1901, in East Grand Forks, Minn., Bradley attended school up to the eighth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. She then went to work on her family’s farm in East Grand Forks before she married her first husband, Axel Burger Carlson, in 1923.

In search of better job opportunities, Bradley and her husband moved to Ventura County in 1944. And in 1946, she went to work as a stock clerk at the Pacific Missile Test Center at Point Mugu.

“She loved it,” said her son, LeRoy Carlson of Ventura, a 63-year-old carpet sales representative. “She was just a good, hard worker.”

Bradley’s first husband died in 1962 and she married Carl Bradley in 1970. Judy Bradley retired from Point Mugu after 25 years of service. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of Ventura and a lifetime member of Vasa Lodge 620 of Ventura.

“I would say that she was almost a perfect lady in all respects,” her son said. “She was always smiling, comfortable with life, and knowing that she had done well in everything that she had done.”

Bradley was preceded in death by her two husbands. In addition to her son and his wife, Billie Jo, she is survived by brothers Vernon Johnson of Minnesota and Henry Johnson of Costa Mesa; sisters Viola Lucki and Sylvia Skavlon of Minnesota; eight grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

Funeral Services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Ted Mayr Funeral Home, 3150 Loma Vista Road, in Ventura. Pastor Ken Gesch of Trinity Lutheran Church of Ventura will officiate. Burial will follow in Ivy Lawn Memorial Park, Ventura.