Ann M. McGee

Ann M. Lavin McGee
Ann M. Lavin McGee, 92, of
Pontiac, died at 2:10 a.m. Sunday,
Sept. 12, 2010, at Evenglow Lodge
Tjardes Health Center.

Her funeral will be at 11 a.m.
Friday at St. Mary's Catholic
Church, Pontiac, the Rev. David
Sabel officiating.
Burial will be in St. Mary's
Catholic Cemetery, Pontiac.
Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m.
Thursday at Duffy-Baier-Snedecor
Funeral Home, Pontiac. The Rosary
will be recited at 7 p.m.

She was born March 16, 1918, at
Weston, the daughter of Terrance and Catherine
(Greenwald) Brady. She married Michael J. Lavin in
1943. He preceded her in death.

Surviving are two sons, Michael J. (Lydia) Lavin, San
Diego, Calif., and Timothy J. (Sue Lavin, Bremerton,
Wash.; two daughters, Patricia A. (Harvey) Morowitz,
Buffalo Grove, and Kathleen (Rick) Campbell, Pontiac;
10 grandchildren, Andrew and John Paul Lavin, Darcy and Lauren Morowitz, Patrick, Luke and Josie
Lavin, Mary Kate Lavin, and Angela and Shannon
Campbell; nine great-grandchildren; and one
daughter-in-law, Linda Lavin of Washington.

Mrs. McGee was also preceded in death by her
parents; one son, William Lavin; and three brothers,
John "Jack," Jim and Jerry Brady.

Ann received her registered nurse degree from
St. Francis Hospital in Peoria.
She had been employed with Caterpillar in
Peoria as an industrial nurse and later became
the first administrator of the Livingston County
Health Department.

During World War II she worked as an R.N. in a
refugee hospital in San Francisco, Calif.
She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic
Church in Pontiac.
Ann had served on the board at Humiston
Haven, the board at the Joliet Woman's prison,
and was a member of the Catholic Ladies of St.
Mary's.

The family suggests memorials may be made to
the St. Mary's Catholic School, Pontiac.