2 Quotes & Sayings By Madge Madigan
Born in 1887, Madge Madigan grew up on the family farm near the small town of New Boston, Texas. She was comfortable with her surroundings and had a healthy, rich childhood filled with playmates. She was an excellent student and graduated from New Boston High School in 1904. After graduating high school, Madge attended Baylor College of Medicine in Houston where she earned her medical degree in 1909
During her time at Baylor College of Medicine, Madge spent much of her free time volunteering at hospitals and as a member of the Women’s Medical Society. She was an active member of the Presbyterian church and maintained a strong lifelong relationship with the church. In 1909, she married Dr.
John J. Madigan and they moved to San Antonio where she practiced medicine for almost twenty years. By 1920, she was a very successful doctor but after the birth of their first child, Dr.
John J. Madigan Jr., he began having health issues that would plague him his entire life. Overwhelmed by the demands on a new mother, Madge decided to step aside from being a doctor and focused on being a stay-at-home mom to her young son.
She enjoyed being a wife and mother but always knew that she would return to practicing medicine again one day. In 1938, Dr. John J.
Madigan Sr., passed away after struggling with health issues for many years. That same year, Madge’s mother died from complications during surgery for breast cancer at age sixty-two which caused an emotional upheaval for Madge because this also meant that there would be no more family life for her sister Agnes who lived a few days after surgery to be with them during their grieving process because of her illness and death from cancer as well as their loss of their father John Jr., who died five years earlier from complications during surgery for pneumonia at age twenty-nine as well as another devastating loss when their third child John III died two weeks after birth in 1939 as well as their youngest child Katherine who died at age three months from pneumonia shortly after birth due to complication during delivery at St Mary’s Hospital in San Antonio where she was born by cesarian section because it was too dangerous for Dr. John Sr., to be present during delivery because he was ill and unable to perform surgery due to complications resulting from his illness and death just five years earlier due to complications during surgery for pneumonia at age thirty-nine as well as complications during surgery for appendicitis