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Two Rappahannock men are retiring from the Virginia Department of Highways with a combined total of 86 years service. They are Moffett H. Brady of Flint Hill and Carlton Atkins, Sperryville, and they were honored by fellow employees and the department with a dinner Thursday evening at Holly House near Culpeper.
Mr. Brady is retiring from his position after fifty years of service, the past twenty years of which he served as Maintenance Superintendent for Rappahannock County. Though his retirement is not official until the end of the year, he has already concluded active service.
Mr. Brady was first employed by the Department as a truck driver on October 1, 1919, and at that time was 16 years old. He was promoted to equipment operator in 1932, and in 1936 he was made a foreman in Fauquier County. In 1945 he returned to Rappahannock as a bridge foreman and constructed 65 bridges in the secondary system here in a 3-year period.
He was promoted to Maintenance Superintendent for Rappahannock County in 1949 and remained in this capacity until his retirement. He was responsible for all roads in this
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