Sister Julie Brady, SSND went to her eternal reward after a short hospitalization.  She was placed on hospice care and with SSNDs, family members and others present, she died peacefully around 11:30 a.m. on August 25, 2022.

Sister Julie was the second of three daughters born to Evelyn (Shephard) and Bernard Brady on October 9, 1948, in Tampa, Florida. She was baptized on November 14, 1948, at Christ the King Church in Tampa and named Julie Anne.

She is preceded in death by her parents.

She is survived by her two sisters, Jacqueline Brady Sartore (Gilbert Sartore) and Kelly Brady Stanton (James Stanton), ten nieces and one nephew: Mary Beth Sartore Kumar (Paul); Aimee Sartore Johnson (Steve); Megan Sartore Lacer (Jon); Sarah Sartore; Kristin Sartore (Tal Milchan); Emily Sartore Murrell (Rick); John Sartore (Julie); Katherine Stanton Grady (Jamie); Amy Stanton Reaves (Matt); Caroline Stanton Lott (John); Molly Stanton Hall (Logan) and twenty-one great nieces and nephews.

Sister Julie's father was a career officer in the Air Force and therefore, the family moved frequently.  During her childhood, she, her mother and two sisters traveled widely throughout the United States and Canada. This experience gave her a broad understanding of different races and nationalities. Her parents who were devout Catholics always ensured that she and her sisters attended Catholic elementary and high schools.

During her college years at the University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, Sister Julie decided she wanted to go into a profession that made a difference in people's lives by helping them to learn and to accept themselves. She realized that was her life's calling, to become a teacher.  Sister Julie registered late for her junior year at the University and as a result could only register for a Theology class that was for the Sisters and young seminarians.  As one of four lay students in the class, she often did projects with the Sisters and got to know them on a personal level. She initially resisted the idea of becoming a Sister but by her senior year, she made up her mind to give it a try and talked to the vocation directress of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was encouraged to complete her college education before entering.

She entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame, an educational order, as a postulant at the motherhouse in Irving, Texas on August 26, 1970.  She was received into the novitiate on January 16, 1971. She professed her first vows on July 1, 1972, and her final vows on May 5, 1981. In July 2022, Sister Julie celebrated 50 years of religious profession as a School Sister of Notre Dame.

Sister Julie was awarded a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Dallas, Irving, Texas in 1970 and a master's degree in English from the University of Dallas in 1979.  From 1972 -1982, she taught English and Religion at Redemptorist High School, New Orleans; T.K. Gorman High School, Tyler, Texas and Redemptorist High School, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  During the next five years she was the vocation director for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, the former Dallas Province. She then taught for two years at Resurrection High School, Pascagoula, Mississippi.

During an interprovincial Tertian Program, Sister Julie was inspired by the commitment of Mother Caroline Friess, SSND who traveled to America from Germany to teach German children.  Feeling called to teach in another culture, she requested to go to teach at the recently opened high school in Sunyani, Ghana, West Africa.  She taught English, Bible and Literature at the Notre Dame Secondary School for seven years, served as Postulant directress for two years and taught another year at the high school.

In 2000, she returned to the United States for a period of recuperation and service at St. Mary of the Pines, Chatawa, Mississippi.  She was then missioned to teach at St. Gerard Regional High School in San Antonio, Texas.  In 2018, she began teaching at Healy Murphy High School in San Antonio, Texas.

Her childhood experiences prepared her for ministering to persons of various cultures and beliefs.  She had a love for the poor and a desire to share spiritual values with them.  She journeyed with women in a discernment process and taught students and their families that God loved them.  May she rest in the loving presence of the God she loved through the witness of love she exhibited daily.

FUNERAL SERVICES

Friday, September 2, 2022

Visitation will be held at 5:30pm
Rosary to be recited at 7:00pm
The Angelus Chapel,
1119 N. St. Mary's St.

Saturday, September 3, 2022
Funeral Mass will be offered at 10:00am
St. Gerard's Catholic Church

Interment will be in the
Cemetery of the School Sisters of Notre Dame
Thursday, September 8. at 1:15 p.m. in Chatawa, Mississippi

Hartman-Jones Funeral Home of McComb, MS is in charge of Graveside services only.