Madonna Marie Gann

In keeping with my motto, "Life goes on," please do not cry because I'm gone, instead be happy because I was here---O.K., maybe cry a tiny bit. After all, I have passed away. Remember, life is good. Never forget yesterday, but always live for today. You never know what tomorrow can bring or what it can take away.

Madonna Marie (Allen) Gann, 86, Pendleton, passed away on July 21, 2023. She was born on February 14, 1937, in Anderson, the daughter of Robert and Ruth Allen. Madonna joined the Marine Corps out of high school and married a sailor. She adopted two children, Sam and Stephanie. Madonna retired from the D.O.T., FAA, and NASA in Oklahoma City in 1994.

Madonna owned and operated two different bed and breakfast businesses on the Gulf Coast in Texas. In her spare time she enjoyed quilting, knitting, and reading.

Madonna was a charter member of the Women in Military Service of America Memorial, a life member of AMVETS Post #26 in Pendleton, a member of the Spring Valley Quilt Guild, and the Madison County Historical Society, Inc.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert J. Allen and Ruth L. (Stern) Allen, her brothers, James Earl Allen and his wife, Janet S. (Craig) Allen, William Ralph Allen and his wife Connie Allen, Keith Jay Allen, and John Robert Allen, her sister, Linda Faye (Allen) Smith, and her grandson, Ryan Norris Gann.

Madonna is survived by her daughter, Stephanie Lorraine Gann Crappo, McAlester, OK; her son, William Louis Samuel "Sam" Gann (wife, Teresa), Shawnee, OK; her sisters, Jean (Allen) Fox (husband, Edward), Pendleton, Diana (Allen) Curless (husband, Charles), Anderson, and Karen (Allen) Roam (husband, Carlo), Champlin, MN; four grandchildren, several great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins; very special friends, Sandra (Steel) Haines, Cleveland, OH, and Esther (Turner) Arnold, Middletown, IN; and her
Gann sisters.

Visitation will be on Thursday, July 27, 2023, from 9:30 A.M.-11:30 A.M. at Loose Funeral Homes & Crematory, 200 W. 53rd Street, Anderson, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 12:00 P.M. at St. Ambrose Catholic Church, 2801 Lincoln Street, Anderson, with Rev. Matthew Jakupco officiating.

Burial will be in Anderson Memorial Park Cemetery where military honors will be conducted.

Memorial gifts may be made to the Arthritis Foundation (www.arthritis.org).