Death claimed too many of our good friends in 2017.
One of them was former classmate Joy Van Zandt Bradford, the closest Baytown connection I had since moving to Fredericksburg. Joy lived in nearby Kerrville, where she played tennis and bridge and gave her time to countless worthy causes.
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