Bernice B. Brodt, 94, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 18, 2016, at Moravian Hall Square in Nazareth, surrounded by both her loving family and her MHS family. She was the wife of the late Ray H. Brodt, who died in May, 1998. They were married during WWII in Fargo, ND.

Born on Easter morning, March 27, 1921, in Pen Argyl, she was the daughter of the late Russell Dawe and Fannie Strunk Dawe Decker. She was the great-granddaughter of the late Robert Morris Jones, a Welsh immigrant who developed the local slate industry, was the founder of Bangor, and became Bangor's first Chief Burgess.

Bernice was a 1939 graduate of Bangor High School, and in 1942 graduated from the Allentown General Hospital as a Registered Nurse. During the 1940's she worked as an RN in Las Vegas and later worked for Dr. Turtzo of Bangor. She and her late husband were both avid trout and Atlantic salmon fisherman.

Bernice is survived by two sons, Dean and his wife Virginia (Snyder) of Nazareth, and George and his wife Alice (Kinnaman) of Plainfield Township. Also surviving is a Granddaughter, Regan Richardson and her husband Robert, and a Great-Grandson, Dylan Richardson, all of Plainfield Township.

Services will be private at the convenience of the family, and are under the care and direction of the Schmidt Funeral Home, 407 Belvidere Street, Nazareth. Burial will in Greenwood Cemetery in Nazareth.