Mary Louise Brady, age 92, passed away on August 10, 2014. She was born in Columbia, SC on August 23, 1921 to David Angus Harris and Lutie Williamson Harris. She was preceded in death by her husband, William L. Brady, Jr., and her eldest son, William "Bill" L. Brady, III. She is survived by Bill's wife, Mary, sons, Ben Brady and wife, Norene, and Craig Brady and wife, Susie, six grandchildren, Sarah, Jonathan, Melissa, Beth, Kristin, and David, and three great-grandchildren, Jackson, Ryan, and Jake. Mary Louise grew up in Columbia, SC and Elizabethtown, NC. She graduated from East Carolina Teachers College and moved to Wilmington, NC during World War II to work in the naval shipyard. There, she married her husband, William, during his return from duty overseas in the US Navy. Settling in Fairmont, NC to raise their family, she was a bookkeeper for various family businesses. She was very active in her church as a Sunday School teacher, in Little League baseball, and Boy Scouts. Her determination would accept no less than all three sons becoming Eagle Scouts. After many years, she and her husband later moved to Lumberton, where they co-owned The Medicine Shoppe pharmacy. She was a loving mother and grandmother, totally devoted to her family.