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Born in Spring Green, Wisconsin, May 26, 1920, to Oscar Rowland Linden and Mabel Hansen
Linden, she graduated from Dodgeville High School in Dodgeville, Wisconsin in 1937. Anne went
on to major in English and Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She met her
husband-to-be at the Madison campus where the U.S. Navy had sent him for officer's training.
After Anne graduated in 1942, she taught in Wisconsin schools for a short time before marrying
Albert on August 29, 1942 in Hollywood, Florida. The couple then moved to Bakersfield,
California, where Anne worked at a shipyard while Albert served in the Pacific during WWII.

The couple would settle in Walla Walla in 1946, where our Grand Master had been establishing a
law practice. Anne taught for a few years at St. Paul's Episcopal School for girls in Walla Walla.
Later in life, she worked at the Walla Walla Community College Library. Anne was a member of
the Eastern Star and served as Grand Marshal of the Grand Chapter during the 1959-1960 term.

A real human being with warm impulses, love for his fellow man, an impressive sincerity, and a
deep regard for his obligations as a citizen, a father, a member of his profession and a Mason are
qualities that are not hidden by the veil of judicial dignity and official rank.
Those who closely followed his career in the Grand Lodge can appreciate the time, energy,
thought, and the physical discomfiture he has endured for the cause of Washington Masonry. In
the closing paragraph of his Annual Message to the Grand Lodge, he poured out his heart in
detailing the sacrifices he made to serve the Grand Lodge of Washington. "Despite the memorable
experiences of the last four years, they have also contained some of the loneliest hours of my life.
I pray someday my wife and boys will read this and know I have always loved them, and those
five and six hour drives home alone were spent planning the things we were going to do together
when my term ends, God grant that it is not too late,"

Only the deepest love for Masonry could command service of such magnitude.

In his dedicated service to the Craft, Most Worshipful Brother Albert Naron Bradford not only
maintained in their fullest splendor the traditions of Masonry, but he faithfully observed the
precepts of the Great Light of Masonry. His star shines brilliantly with those of the Illustrious
Brethren who have preceded him in the East of our Grand Lodge. His record of the past year
remains a challenge to those who will follow.

D - Oct. 14, 2009