He was born Feb. 26, 1920, on a farm 10 miles north of Goodland, to Abe McLain and Addie (Barnes) Madison. He lived and attended schools in Colorado Springs, Colo. He attended Colorado College, interrupting his studies to serve in World War II, where he was stationed in Salisbury, England, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. After the war, Mr. Madison completed his bachelor’s degree and attended medical school at Kansas University.

He practiced medicine from 1952 to 1987 in Nortonville and was instrumental in the construction of the Village Villa nursing home there.

He married Martha Winston. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include four daughters, Helen Flanner, Leavenworth; Carolyn Madison, Danville, Calif.; Kathy Madison, Lenexa, and Martha McKenzie, Pamona; and five grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to Nortonville United Methodist Church or to Jefferson County Memorial Hospital, Winchester, sent in care of O’Trimble Funeral Home, P.O. Box 267, Nortonville, 66060.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.