Madonna’s Grandmother Dies

Madonna is mourning the death of her grandmother, Elsie Mae Fortin, who passed away yesterday in Bay City, Michigan at the age of 99.
It was Fortin who partially raised Madonna after the singer’s mother succumbed to breast cancer in 1963. Madonna was just five years old at the time.
Shortly before Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, Fortin told her local paper, the Bay City Times, “She’s done things that I didn’t approve of, but at the same time she’s my granddaughter and I still love her and I’m proud of her hard work… She’s been good to me.”