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Thursday, May 13, 2021
?addie McClendon, a Dadeville teen, was diagnosed with rare ovarian cancer in October 2020. Maddie passed away at home at the tender age of eighteen, six months after her diagnosis on Saturday, May 08, 2021.
Maddie Ann McClendon was born on July 12, 2002, to Mark McClendon and Christina Petty McClendon. Maddie graduated from Lee-Scott Academy in May 2020. She was a member of First Baptist Church, of Dadeville where she loved teaching Vacation Bible school. Maddie enjoyed going on mission trips, especially her trip to Olanchito, Honduras, where she was the first to climb up the mountain to a village after an eight-mile hike. Maddie also represented her class as one of two junior maids on the homecoming court and co-headed the Varsity cheer squad her senior year. Three months after her graduation Maddie was informed of her diagnosis, Small-cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT).
Maddie and her family traveled to Cincinnati for Maddie to receive treatment from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for her ovarian cancer after local therapies were unsuccessful. Unfortunately, without avail, Maddie’s Chemotherapy and other medicines in Cincinnati were ineffective. After learning that the procedures were not successful, Maddie and her family decided to return home to Dadeville.
On Wednesday, May 05, 2021, Maddie and her family returned home. Upon their arrival, the town lined the streets with love and banners welcoming Maddie home. Maddie and her family spent the day taking pictures and returning the love and gratitude, appreciation for their town and its citizens.
The Alabama State Senators Tom Whatley and Clyde Chambliss signed a resolution on Thursday, May 06, 2021, the day after Maddie returned home in Dadeville. The solution the Senators enacted is to raise awareness and encourage others to aid in fighting ovarian cancer. On World Ovarian Cancer Day, Maddie lost her battle with ovarian cancer.