Velma Bradshaw Leavell
Aug. 27, 1915 ~ Oct. 6, 2016
Velma Bradshaw Leavell died at the age of 101 on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016.
Born on Aug. 27, 1915 to Elsie Allen Smith (grandniece of Mary Jane Brown, who with her husband Frank J. Brown, founded Friendswood in 1895) and William T. Smith (County Commissioner of Galveston Co. Mainland who died in 1932 never having been defeated).
Velma was born in Friendswood, Texas just after the 1915 storm.
Velma went through the 8th grade in the Friendswood School and graduated from Webster High School.
She married Edward W. Bradshaw who had moved to Galveston to open Bradshaw's
Florist and Garden Center and Landscape Dept. at 27th and Broadway.
They were in business 40 years from 1932 – 1972.
Eddie Bradshaw died in 1966 and she sold the florist and garden center six years later.
