Mrs. LARRY (Elaine Engel) CONLON 1918-2003

BLAKE, ENGEL, CONLON, BECKER

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 2/4/2004 at 15:36:23

Elaine Conlon

Telegraph Herald - Nov 25, 2003

Elaine (Engel) Conlon, 85, of Madison, Wis., formerly of Dubuque, passed away peacefully on Monday, Nov. 24, 2003, at Meriter Hospital, Madison, surrounded by her loving family.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Blessed Sacrament Church, 2116 Hollister Ave., Madison, where friends may call after 11 a.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery, 2705 Regent St., Madison. The Cress Funeral Home, Madison, is in charge of arrangements.

She was born on Aug. 10, 1918, in Dubuque, daughter of Henie and Agnes (Blake) Engel. She attended Dubuque Senior High School.

It was in Dubuque where she met her husband, Larry, and was married in 1941.

In Madison, Elaine was a 50-year member of Blessed Sacrament Parish and took an active part in the Altar and Rosary Society. She served as president of the Madison Area Retardation Council supporting retarded children throughout the Madison area.

She worked with the office staff of Governor Warren P. Knowles and at the University of Wisconsin in the economics department. She also was a lifelong partner in the family business, Conlon Kitcheneers.

She loved Wisconsin sports, especially football and basketball. She was a Wisconsin football season ticket holder and attended many of the bowl games. She boasted of dancing with the band on the field in Pasadena after Wisconsin won their first Rose Bowl. She also loved to golf. She participated in Madison area golf leagues and was a member of the Hole In One Club.

Surviving are a sister, Lois Becker, of Mountain Home, Ark.; sons, Tom (Pat) Conlon, of Placentia, Calif., Brian Conlon and Christopher (Margaret Anderson) Conlon, both of Madison, and Russell Conlon, of Seattle; and seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Larry; her parents; a sister, Harriet; and a brother, Hank.

The family wants to thank the kind and considerate care provided by Dr. Elizabeth O'Brien, who was always at her side. They also want to thank the staff at Meriter Hospital for making Mom's brief stay as comfortable as possible.

I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one, I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times bright and sunny days. I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that I leave when life is done.