Glenda C Bradshaw

March 27, 1944 - January 23, 2020

Glenda Carol Bradshaw was Born March 27, 1944 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Henry Casey and Jewel (Eubanks) Casey. She was the last of six children and the only one born in a hospital. She passed away on January 23, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 75 years 9 months and 27 days. Glenda Carol grew up in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She loved to be outside in the summer and her favorite place to be as remembered by all, was the creek banks of the Illinois River during the Oklahoma summer days. After living in the Tahlequah area for most of her life, for the last 15 years, she had resided in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma with her daughter Casey Sue (Bradshaw) Franklin and her son in law Troy Dion Franklin. Glenda Carol attended Northeastern State University where she first obtained her bachelor’s degree and then went on to obtain her Master’s Degree, followed by a Reading Specialist Degree. She liked to say she had more degrees than most people had brain cells. She began her teaching career in Concord, Oklahoma before becoming a Remedial Reading Specialist at Briggs Elementary School just outside of Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She was the first teacher in the state of Oklahoma to pioneer a satellite bridge program for her remedial reading students and taught for 25 years, retiring in 2000. Glenda Carol departed her earthly body on Thursday, January 23, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her husband of 30 years Thomas Allen Bradshaw, both of her parents, her sister Billie Fritz, her brothers Tommy Casey, Paul Casey, Wendell (Mackie) Casey, her niece Susan Casey and nephews Mark Allen Casey and Timmy Casey. Glenda Carol is survived by; her middle daughter Casey Sue (Bradshaw) Franklin and husband Troy Dion Franklin of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, her youngest daughter Rebekah (Bradshaw) Nephew and husband Stacey (Chuck) Nephew of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, her oldest daughter (from a previous marriage to Billy Wayne Morton) Carol Lynn (Morton) Ellison of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one brother Jerry Casey and wife Pam of Yuma, Arizona and one sister in law Monte Rae Casey, wife of late brother Tommy Casey, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Her grandchildren include Arriahna Franklin and TJ Franklin, of the home in which Glenda Carol resided, Matthew (Scoot) Blystone of Guthrie, Ok, Darin Hooper of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Brandon Hooper of Arlington, Texas, and Katherine (Katie) Hooper of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. Great grandchildren include Aiden Hooper, Ethan Hooper and Jackson Hooper. Glenda Carol’s nieces and nephews include, Sharron Fritz, Frank Walker, Paula Ann McCann, Paul Gene Casey, Tracie Stafford, Shannon Casey, Terry Lynn, and Jerry Wayne (Bopper) Casey as well as a host of great nieces, nephews, and cousins. She will be deeply missed by all her family and friends.