RIP: Elsie Mae Fortin, Madonna’s grandma, dead at 99

Madonna’s maternal grandmother Elsie Mae Fortin died at the age of 99 in her Bay City home. “I will always remember her for being very gracious and welcoming,” said the Rev. Craig Albrecht of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, which Fortin attended for the past two decades. “There were times where I would go into her house, and she would have brownies and coffee made.