{"id":10290,"date":"2020-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10290"},"modified":"2020-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10290","title":{"rendered":"Mary Bradford Kilgore, bowler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mary Bradford Kilgore, a championship bowler and dedicated mother, died on April 6, 2020, of COVID-19 complications. She was 86 years old.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

 “My sister and I were in charge of dusting and keeping my mom’s bowling trophies clean,” her daughter Sharon Kilgore-Smith of Cottage Grove said. “She had around 300 trophies.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bradford Kilgore built her extensive trophy collection during a 23-year career in mostly the 1960s and 1970s as one of the top female bowlers in the nation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

She was a member of a team sponsored by Motown Records owner Berry Gordy. The highly successful team was perennially one of the top women’s teams in the country.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bradford Kilgore won several individual state titles while the Motown team was winning numerous Michigan state titles.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

She also teamed with each of her daughters to win mother-daughter tournaments.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In 1985, she was named a Star of Yesteryear by the Michigan State USBC (United States Bowling Congress).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In February 1990, the Detroit Free Press ran a story about the history of bowling in Detroit. Bradford Kilgore was listed as one of the all-time best bowlers in the city.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bradford Kilgore, of Cottage Grove, died on April 6 of complications of COVID-19. She was 86.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Kilgore-Smith has fond memories of her mother’s bowling career.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bradford Kilgore retired from bowling to care for her daughter Darlene, who had lupus and died in 1983 at 26.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“She always put her children and family first,” Kilgore-Smith said. “She ended her career to take care of her daughter.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bradford Kilgore was born to George Washington Sr. and Fannie Lou Bradford on Aug. 14, 1933, in Alabama. The family moved to Detroit before her first birthday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

After graduating from Detroit’s Pershing High School in 1951, she worked as an accountant for the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and an electric company in Detroit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“She was such a role model,” Kilgore-Smith said. “She was a dedicated mentor who made sure her children would be successful in life without her. I just retired from a successful career with 3M and I owe it to what I learned from her.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bradford Kilgore moved to Minnesota in 2015 to live with her daughter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In addition to her daughter, she is survived by two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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