Sarah Pearl Singletary Brady

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

High Mass for Mrs. R. F. Brady, who died Monday night in St. Anthony's hospital in Oklahoma City, will be Thursday morning at 10:00 in the Church of All Saints, Sayre.

Mrs. Brady has been a resident of the Grimes community since 1900.

Sarah Pearl Singletary was born December 19, 1880 at Douglasville, Texas and died March 2, 1957.

Her girlhood days were spent in Buoy, Texas.

In 1900 she came to the Grimes community where she filed on a piece of land.

August 25, 1909 she was married to R. F. Brady, in Elk City, Oklahoma. To this union seven children were born all of whom survive except one son, Dennis, who died in 1941.

Survivors include her husband, R. F. Brady, three sons, Charles, Ada, Oklahoma; Leo, Van Nuys, California; and Sherman, Grimes; and three daughters, Mrs. T. J. Harmon, Ranier, Oregon; Sister May Placida, O.S.B., Tulsa; and Sister Mary Gertrude, O.S.F., Oklahoma City.

Two brothers, George Singletary, Graham, Texas; and Neal Singletary of Chickasha; eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren also survive.

In January 1957 Mrs. Brady was elected president of Altar Society of her church. She was also elected parish candidate of "Mother of the Year" title of the Queen of All Saints Church of Sayre.

Mrs. Brady was a pioneer in the work of Home Demonstration clubs of Roger Mills county.

She pioneered in every movement for better schools and educational advantages for the youth of Roger Mills County.

Committal will be in the Calvary cemetery, Elk City, Beckham County, Oklahoma under the direction of Scroggins Funeral Home, Sayre.