Saying Goodbye

My Grandma Crowley passed away on Saturday. This was my last living grandparent. I was very close with my grandpa and grandma Crowley. My grandpa passed away in 2005 and ever since...my grandma has just wanted to be with him again. While I am very sad and will miss her, I know she is happy to be reunited with grandpa. And it sounds like she went peacefully. She was up Saturday morning and seemed fine, told the nursing staff she wanted to rest a little while before breakfast. They came back 20 minutes later and she had passed away.

Gram's Obituary:

Crowley, Marcella
STEUBEN
Marcella Crowley, age 91, resided at 535 11th Street, Fennimore, formerly Steuben. She passed peacefully away Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008, at Fennimore Community Good Samaritan Center. She was born on June 24, 1917, to Blanche and William Johnston in Rising Sun. She married Kenneth Crowley on June 22, 1939. She taught school before she started raising her family of eight children. Then while raising her family she was a farmer. She is survived by five children, Frank (Eileen) Crowley, Prairie du Chien, William (Dolores) Crowley, Madison, Mary Bass, Fennimore, Ken (Linda) Crowley, Oregon, and Jim (Carolyn) Crowley, McFarland. She is also survived by a daughter-in-law, Evelyn Crowley, Steuben; 22 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; a sister, Rita Clark, Viroqua; and a sister-in-law, Evelyn Johnston, Richland Center. Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Kenneth; three sons, Patrick, Michael, and Gerald; a grandson, Scott Crowley; a son-in-law, Tom Bass. Also preceding her death were brothers, Donald, Philip, and Eulogius; and sisters, Margaret Harter and Evelyn Hess. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008, at 11 a.m. at ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, in Seneca, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the GARRITY FUNERAL HOME, in Prairie du Chien, where there will be a parish rosary at 7:30 p.m. www.garrityfuneralhome.com