Anne Carduff Bramley

Anne Carduff Bramley of Frackville, died Tuesday, July 18, 2017, surrounded with love in the final months of her 87 years by the children, grandchildren, brothers and sister she had cared for and served her entire life.

Born in West Mahanoy Township, April 16, 1930, she was the third daughter and the seventh of 10 children born to a coal miner, Jeremiah Byrne, and his wife, Kathleen Kelly Byrne.

She grew up in the Brownsville "patch" and graduated from West Mahanoy Township High School in 1947.

A proud daughter of Ireland, she was a lifelong Democrat who went on to become the first woman to serve on the Girardville Borough Council. She was also a Schuylkill County Democratic Committeewoman.  From 1972 to 1980, she worked at the courthouse in Pottsville as Inheritance Tax Supervisor for the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. She was active in the several Roman Catholic parishes to which she belonged, most recently, St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Frackville; she also was a 35-year member of the Catholic Daughters of Girardville.

She loved to golf and, in her later years, to watch and critique the pros on TV. She enjoyed the occasional trip to a casino, but her first love always was spending time with and helping family and her many friends.

She was preceded in death by two husbands: David Carduff of Girardville in 1972, and William "Art" Bramley, Orwigsburg, in 1993; also, by brothers James, Jack, Jerry, Paul and David, and by her sister, Kathryn Dougherty.

Surviving are a son, David Carduff, and wife, Anne, of Ashland; two daughters: Kate Sachetti and husband, Jim, Bloomsburg, and Maryanne Petrilla and husband, Jack, Sugarloaf. She is also survived by two brothers, William Byrne of Girardville and Vincent Byrne and wife, Marilyn, of Mascoutah, Ill.; by her sister, Margaret Devanney of Shenandoah, and her sister-in-law, Barbara Byrne, Ringtown. Ten grandchildren: Megan, Joseph and Michael Horan, and Michael's wife, Stephanie; Kelly Scheese and husband, Michael; Erin Anderson and husband, Ryan; David Carduff and wife, Crystal; J.P. and Danny Petrilla; Rachel Lanier and husband, Brandon, and Charlotte Sachetti. Ten great-grandchildren: Annie and Molly Scheese; Ashton Fisher and Brady and Kyran Horan; Mary and Lucy Anderson; McKenna Carduff; Caden and Jace Lanier; also, 17 nieces and nephews.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 22, at St. Joseph the Worker Parish, 49 N. Line St., Frackville, with Rev. Father Robert Finlan and Msgr. Edward Coyle officiating.

Friends may call at the church Friday, July 21, from 6 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, July 22, from 10 a.m. until time of service at St. Joseph the Worker Parish, 49 N. Line St., Frackville. Burial will follow in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fountain Springs.