Born Madeline Grace McCann in Toronto, Ontario Canada. She was orphaned at the age of ten, she was raised by her maternal grandmother. At the age of 21 she left Canada for the United States and settled in Chicago, Illinois. There she met her future husband James Vincent Anians. Madeline had one son and six grandchildren. She worked for Illinois Bell until she retired in 1967. Her husband James passed away in 1969. Madeline pursued her lifelong hobbies to write stories. She worked at Quality Discount in Chicago in the late 1970s and moved to South Carolina to be close to her family in the 1990s. Madeline passed away in Seneca, South Carolina in the spring of 1999.
