Eleanor Vivian Bradley, 99 years, 11 months, of Upland, passed away peacefully on January 1, 2021 in Ontario, California.
Funeral and burial service will be held Graveside at Bellevue Memorial Park on January 20, 2020 at 11:30 am. The Stone Funeral home- https://m.facebook.com/StoneFuneral/
Eleanor was born in New York to Albert and Margaret Griffin on February 15, 1921. She went to high school at Jamaica High School and graduated in 1938.
Her first job was in downtown Manhattan. In July, 1950 she moved from New York to Anaheim, California. She arrived in Anaheim after a long, four-day train trip. Within three weeks, she was hired to work in the City Hall for the city of Anaheim, and was eventually promoted to deputy city clerk. Her husband-to-be had arrived in Anaheim a couple of months earlier. He was employed as the photographer and photoengraver for the Anaheim Gazette, a weekly newspaper. Disneyland was under construction in the early 1950's, and one day, Anaheim's street supervisor took Eleanor and another woman to see Disneyland’s construction in progress. She saw many of the original attractions and restaurants in the building stages.
Eleanor had many fond memories of her life at that time, experiencing the small-town atmosphere of Anaheim from the perspective of a big-city girl, and especially witnessing the birth and development of the wonderful Disneyland. She smiled when telling stories of flying with her husband while he piloted his small plane.
Eleanor was an x-ray transcriber at Pomona Valley Medical Center for 25 years until she retired in 1986. Then she volunteered at the same hospital until she was 97 years old, another 25 years!
She enjoyed reading, traveling, cross word puzzles, Bunco, going to casino’s and celebrating holidays with family. She was dedicated to her parents, taking care of her father and her mother into their senior years, and helped her brother take care of his newborn baby while her sister-in-law recovered from Tuberculosis.
The family wishes to extend their gratitude to Brookdale Hospice and the Brookdale North Euclid Senior Assisted Living for their support in her final days.
Eleanor is preceded in death by her parents, Albert and Margaret Griffin; uncle Henry Matheson, her ex-husband, Miles Bradley, brother Glenn (wife Betty) Griffin.
Eleanor is survived by her children and their spouses, Janice (husband Mike) Sarver, Miles Jr. (wife Sheila) Bradley, grandson, Jason Wilson, granddaughters Shelley (husband Troy) Griesemer, Sandi (husband Duane) Ignacio and Kelly Sarver, great granddaughters Haley Wilson, Aliyah and Janae Jefferson, great grandsons David Tokamoto, Hayden Marcum, Jordan and Jeremy Pappas, and nephews, Doug and Alan Griffin and their spouses/partners, her best friend Melvie Benzies and many more family members and friends.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center Foundation, https://www.pvhmc.org/giving-support/donate-now/ Please direct it to the Auxiliary Sick Baby fund.
Condolences may be left in Eleanor Vivian Bradley’s online guestbook at https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/upland-ca/eleanor-bradley-10000306
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