Marguerite Pati Ann Cannon
Joe Denoyer - March 21, 2017 8:25 am
Marguerite Pati Ann (Coltran) Cannon, (aged 81 years, 4 months, 25 days) passed away Monday morning at 5:56 am 20-March-2017, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas.
She was born 24-October-1935, at Larned, Kansas, the daughter of Clifford Forrest and Jessie Dorothy (Click) Coltran. The family traveled around some during her childhood, so she attended several different schools including the Plains school district, Sacred Heart grade school and public high school in Dodge City. Her senior year of High School was in Liberal where she graduated in the class of 1955. She went on to finish two years of college at Sacred Heart in Wichita (Newman College now). At the time she was working towards a degree in Art Education.
She was a long time resident of Plains, Kansas, though she and the family did live along time in Dodge City when her grandmother Jessie Bell (Martin) Click was alive and while her father ran an upholstery shop next door to Leonard Tires. For about a year in 1966 the family lived in the Washington DC area while her father was being treated for cancer at Walter Reed Hospital. During that time one of her jobs included working at George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation where she had the privilege of playing Washington’s harpsichord.
She was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church and was working on the process of becoming a member of the DAR. (At least two of her ancestors were Revolutionary War patriots: Moses Hawkins & Lindsey Josselyn. Both of those lines also trace back to early New England as the Hawkins arrived in 1635 and the Josselyns in 1639 – facts that were just uncovered in the last 6 years. Note that a third patriot was uncovered just a few months before she died.)
She enjoyed musicals, theatre, art, dance, music, reading poetry, and watching Hollywood movies and musicals of her day. As a young girl she got a part in the musical Hansel and Gretel by Offenbach which started her interest in that venue. In the theatre, her favorite involvement was when she was given good reviews for her performance for stage performance in play Gaslight performed in Barstow, California. In music, she sang, played the piano, and studied violin for several years. She was in the orchestra in Liberal High School. Note that her violin was passed down to her. It originally belonged to her grandfather, Orval Robert Click, who purchased it back in the 1890’s in Wichita. In art she loved to draw, and paint primarily in water colors, and she loved sketching with pastels and charcoal. She also loved animals as was typical of most of her family. She was especially fond of cats — a trait she shared with her sister and her sister’s daughters.
She is survived by a son, Frank Nickolas “Nick” Cannon of Lecompton, Kansas.
She is preceded in death by her parents, baby twin brothers, a third brother, and one sister, Sue Ann Marie Page.
Holy Mass will be celebrated by Fr Ted Skalsky at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 24, 2017, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Plains, Kansas. Interment will follow at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Partridge Cemetery, Partridge, Kansas. Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Thursday at Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary, Meade.
The family would welcome memorials to the Lone Tree Retirement Center in care of the funeral home.