Elsie Lorene Madison

Saturday, June 29, 2024

3:00 PM

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses

12312 Church Rd., Richmond, VA 23233

Zoom info: ID: 842 1941 9736

Password: Tuckahoe

Elsie Lorraine Madison, age 94 Who lived at The Laurels of University Park skilled nursing facility passed away there on June 19, 2024 of pneumonia.

Elsie was born on July 16, 1929 in Richmond, Virginia to Augustus and Amelia Williams. She met Fleming Madison of New Kent at the meetings of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Everyone called him “Tucker” or “Red”, but she always called him “Dear”. They were both baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, as were his parents. They were married on December 21, 1946 at the age of 17 and 19.

Elsie and Red went to a six day assembly in Buffalo New York in 1944 and in 1946. They went to the Cedar point assembly in Ohio, which lasted seven days. They volunteered in food service and other areas. They enjoyed preaching on bicycles, walking, and wearing placards for street witnessing.

Their first son Daniel Ray (Danny) was born April 8, 1950. Two and a half years later Patricia (Tricia) was born followed by Fleming Alex Madison, III (Jaybo or Flip). Elsie loved her children and enjoyed playing with them tickling them and chasing them. They grew up riding bikes, playing in the woods and swimming in the creek. They would talk the responsibility of taking care of the garden and paying their own bills.

The family enjoyed planting a big garden in Varina and canning the produce. They also enjoyed many trips to the river, boating, and fishing.

Danny married Nadine Ballard, in November 1971. Sadly, she passed away three years ago from Parkinson’s. July 1973, Tricia married David Madison, becoming Patricia Madison Madison. Jaybo passed away at the age of 43 from complications of juvenile diabetes.

After 57 years of marriage, Elsie‘s beloved husband passed away. She moved to assisted-living in 2004, due to dementia and later to The Laurels skill nursing care where she had been for the last 13 years. Elsie‘s favorite scripture was always, Daniel 2:44, which says: “In the days of those king, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and destroy all others and itself will stand forever. Elsie remember the scripture as well as songs and other things right up to her death.

Elsie loved her mother, father, brothers, and sisters dearly. She had amusing nicknames for each one. She helped care for her mother for years after a series of strokes. As the dementia worsened she would ask where were her sisters and brothers? When told that they had died, she would cry, but when Tricia told her she would see them again in the resurrection she was a peace again.

Elsie passed away quietly with her daughter by her side. She was preceded in death by her husband Fleming Madison, Jr., her youngest son Fleming III, her two brothers Louis Raymond and Walter Ray Williams and her sisters, Ruby, Edith, Mary, Doris, and Joyce Williams and the spouses. Her only grandson Travis Madison preceded her in death two years ago.

She is survived by her oldest son Daniel Ray Madison, daughter, Patricia A Madison (David) granddaughter Crystal Misiak and great grandchildren Ethan, Juliet and Wyatt Misiak. She also has many nieces and nephews.

Elsie will be missed.