Gertrude Augusta Bray's Obituary
Gertrude Augusta Bray, 94, born on December 7, 1930, in South River, New Jersey passed away on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in Estero, Florida.
Gertrude moved from New Jersey to Hialeah, Florida as a teenager and graduated from Miami Jackson High School. In Hialeah she met Michael Spencer Bray. They both lived on Palm Avenue near Hialeah Racetrack. She developed a crush on Michael and would fold up sheets of paper to look like envelopes. Then she would walk past his house to the corner mailbox to mail them. Years later she would wonder what the postman thought of finding those fake envelopes!
The mailbox trick worked Gertrude and Michael shared sixty-six wedding anniversaries until he passed in 2018. They were blessed with five children Mary J. Abramson (Noel); Cheyenne L. Bray: Nora A. Myers (William): Mona L. Bray (Samuel); and were preceded in death by Michael A. Bray. Gertrude and Michael were the proud grandparents of Christopher B. Abramson.
Gertrude will be missed but will live on in our hearts!
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