ARCOLA - Ann Elizabeth Miller Monahan, 83, passed away Sunday (April 7, 2024) at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, Coles County.Ann was born Sept. 20, 1940, in Washington, D.C., to Morris and Sara Miller. She grew up with three brothers on Broad Branch Road and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1958.She attended Russell Sage College, where she was one of very few women majoring in biology when STEM was a thing. She and her college roommate moved to Chicago after graduation, where she started work in a lab at the University of Chicago. This was where she met a tall, downstate boy with an Irish wit and impressive dance moves who turned out to be the love of her life. Pat and Annie were married in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 5, 1964.The newlyweds started their life together in Albuquerque, N.M., where their oldest, Margaret, was born. Mike and Kate were born in La Grange, and after they moved to Arcola in 1970, Colleen, Dan, Jim, Dave, Kevin and Julie came along. Annie was an a

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