Remembering Aunt Mary Ann

To All,

My cousin Brian McCorry called me this afternoon to tell me that his mother, our Aunt Mary Ann McCorry, died Tuesday in Illinois at the age of 89.
She had been living in a care facility in Willowbrook, Ill., the last few years after selling the family home in Quincy. Brian said she woke up Tuesday morning, even had breakfast, but that later that morning, staff people discovered she had died.
Mary Ann is pictured above with her oldest son, Dan. Thanks to Brian for sending the photo.
She would have turned 90 on this coming May 22, which is coincidentally my birthday, too. She married Dan McCorry, the only son of Charles and Bridget McCorry and brother to Eleanor, Betty, Mary, Rita and Teresa McCorry.
The last time I saw Aunt Mary Ann was sometime in the late 1990s when my brother John, his son Casey, my sister Betty and I drove down to Quincy from Milwaukee. She was a gracious hostess who showed us around Quincy. I'm also reminded of the way she would make sandwiches for people who volunteered for sandbag duty when the Mississippi River flooded a few times over the years.
Brian says plans for a service for Mary Ann are still pending but I'll update this post when I get more details.
If any of you have more digital photos of Aunt Mary Ann, and especially photos of her with Dan and their kids from years back, please share them with me at mullico@gmail.com. I'd like to make a slideshow or just post a few more of them on the blog.
Best wishes to all.

Robert Mullins