Long-time Ibis and West Palm Beach resident Paul H. Grady passed away on Sunday April 7, 2024, due to heart and lung complications. Grady was a retired successful business executive at leading companies including Union Carbide and General Electric, an accomplished athlete and golfer, and a loving husband, father, and grandfather. He was 96 years old.
Paul H. Grady was born December 26, 1927, in New Bedford, MA to John H. and Ellen (Sweeney) Grady. He was raised in Watertown, MA and attended Watertown High School, where he was a varsity baseball and hockey player. He matriculated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but shortly after doing so, joined the U.S. Navy where he served in Washington DC at the conclusion of the Second World War. After completing his service, he returned to MIT and graduated in the Class of 1951, of which he was the First Marshall. At MIT, Grady was also the Captain of the Varsity Hockey and Varsity Golf teams, and a member of the Varsity Baseball team.
He then embarked on a very successful business career that lasted for over four decades. He began his career working as a petroleum engineer for Mobil Oil Corporation and the Union Carbide Corporation. He worked in the Netherlands and lived early in his career in Haddonfield, NJ, but eventually settled with his family in Westport, CT and served as a chemical engineer and then a senior marketing executive at the General Electric Corporation for over two decades. He retired to West Palm Beach in 1991.
Grady is survived in death by his wife of 24 years, Helen (Tracy) Grady of Palm Beach, by his son Paul H. Grady, Jr. of West Hartford, CT, by his daughters Marie R. Grady of Fairfield, CT, and Monica C. Grady of Westport, CT, and by four grandchildren – Monica, Myles, Shannon, and Claire Grady. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ruth (Connors) Grady, his brother John H. Grady, Jr., and his son Peter S. Grady.
Paul Grady was gifted athlete with a warm personality who excelled at golf, a game he loved; played organized hockey in Fairfield County, CT until his seventies; and showered his friends and family with enthusiasm, love and positive energy. He was a parishioner and volunteer at St. Edward Catholic Church in Palm Beach for the past two decades, and a longtime parishioner and volunteer at St. Luke Catholic Church in Westport, CT. He was a member of the Shorehaven Golf Club in Norwalk, CT and of Ibis Club in West Palm Beach, FL. He golfed his age or better over 1,000 times.
A memorial Mass will be held for Mr. Grady on April 30, 2024, at10 am at St. Edward Catholic Church, 144 North County Road, Palm Beach, FL. A reception will follow.
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