Donald William Brady, Sr., age 91, died on Saturday, November 16, 2019 at his home in Pensacola, Florida. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana and a long-time resident of Mobile, Alabama, Mr. Brady attended St. Mary Elementary School, McGill Institute, Spring Hill College, and Loyola University of New Orleans. He dedicated 20 years of service to the education of youth in the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, an outstanding religious community of professional educators, in New York, Louisiana, and Africa. He retired from that community in 1967 and began a new career working for the governments and citizens of the Alabama Counties of Mobile, Baldwin, and Escambia, as a staff member of the South Alabama Regional Planning Commission. He retired in 1998 as Executive Director of the Commission after 29 years of public service.
Mr. Brady is preceded in death by his parents, Roger William Brady and Marie Clapp Brady; brothers, Roger William (Pat) Brady and David Francis Brady; sisters, Carol Ann Sullivan and Rosemary Foster; and son, Roger August Brady. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Sylvia Ann Eltz Brady; his children and their families: Marie Margaret Brady (Robert) Mott and their children, Julia and Jordan, Donald William (Lyn) Brady, Jr. and their children Donald William, III (Will), Zachary (Zach), and Jemerial, and Regina Ann Brady (Patrick) Day and their children Sylvia, Veronica, and Mariana, and also by his nieces Marianne Sullivan and Maiben Crawford (Frank) Haas, and nephew Richard (Lana) Crawford.
Mr. Brady was an active and faithful member of St. Dominic Catholic Church where he had served on both the Parish Council and Education Board. He was a Eucharistic Minister, church organist and choir director, and also sang in the choir at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. He most recently practiced his faith as a member of the Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel parish in Pensacola, Florida. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 11:00 a. m. at St. Dominic Catholic Church, 4156 Burma Road, Mobile, Alabama. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to a visitation immediately preceding the mass, beginning at 10:00 in the Msgr. Francis Murphy Center at St. Dominic Church. Interment will follow the mass at the Catholic Cemetery of the Archdiocese of Mobile.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Dominic Catholic Church, 4156 Burma Road, Mobile, Alabama 36693, Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel, 19 N Palafox St, Pensacola, Florida 32502, or The Brothers of the Sacred Heart Foundation, 4600 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70122. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be offered at www.radneyfuneralhome-mobile.com. Arrangements by Radney Funeral Home, 3155 Dauphin Street, Mobile, Alabama 36606.
