February 14, 1888 - November 10, 1918 (30)

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As a young woman in Centerville, Iowa, Bettina Bradley volunteered in support of the Centerville school’s theater and speech programs. Bettina did not, however attend school in Centerville while her family lived at the new Bradley home. By 1905, Bettina was already attending school at a women’s college in Knoxville, Illinois. She attended further schooling in Davenport, Iowa, National Park Seminary at Washington, D.C. and a private school in New York. She also traveled abroad in her youth.

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On December 14, 1911, Bettina married Theodore (Ted) Stuart, Jr., a prominent lawyer from Chariton, Iowa. Ted had recently moved to Denver, Colorado to establish a law firm and serve as the head football coach at the Colorado School of Mines. The happy couple held their wedding on the first floor of the new Bradley home, and the reception was held in the third floor ballroom. The lavish description of the nuptials in the Semi-Weekly Iowegian covered half of the front page. After their wedding, Bettina joined her new husband Ted in Denver, Colorado.

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In 1918, Ted traveled to Washington, D.C. for work, leaving Bettina with her family along the way in Centerville. Ted would never see his beloved wife alive again. Tragically, Bettina fell victim to the Spanish Flu epidemic that was ravaging the world and sadly died in the Bradley home at the youthful age of 30.