Long-time Livingston resident Barbara H. Grady passed away peacefully in her sleep at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C., on December 30, according to her children. She was 97.
Mrs. Grady and her husband, the late John H. Grady, Jr., a former member of the Livingston Township Council and two-term mayor, had lived in Livingston for 43 years.
The Gradys raised five children, all of whom attended Livingston High School, and all of whom went on to receive college and advanced degrees.
Barbara H. Grady was a teacher, high school guidance counselor, and law school dean of students. Born in 1924 in Youngstown, Ohio, Mrs. Grady, the youngest of three daughters, excelled in school, graduating valedictorian from Rayen High School and at the top of her class from Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.