Mama June Promises Anna 'Chickadee' Cardwell's Memorial Will Have a Poignant Tribute to Daughter's Life Before Cancer
"We're just gonna celebrate Anna's life and ... go out with a bang," Shannon said in an Instagram video posted after Cardwell died at age 29 after being diagnosed with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma
Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell's family is giving her fans a chance to say goodbye.
Cardwell — who starred alongside her family in Toddlers & Tiaras and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo — died Saturday at the age of 29. Her mother, Mama June Shannon, confirmed the news in an Instagram post on Sunday.
Shannon, 44, followed up her initial post with a video shared on Instagram and TikTok on Monday, detailing funeral arrangements and promising to honor her daughter's life before her diagnosis with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma in January.
In the video, the reality TV star shared that Cardwell's fans will be able to pay their respects on Wednesday during a special one-hour visitation window at Williams-White Columns Funeral Home in Gordon, Georgia.
"So I wanted to let y’all know what the arrangements were for Anna," Shannon captioned the video. "It will be at White Columns in Gordon ga the visitation will be between 2~3 pm with the services following afterwards we want y’all to come and join us if you can because Anna would not want it to be any other way."
Shannon said in the video that the family opted for a public visitation so fans could say goodbye to the reality star, who wanted her funeral to be live-streamed, according to her mother.
While the family decided to keep the funeral ceremony itself private, they are urging fans to honor Cardwell on social media. "Let’s get her Instagram to 1 million before Wednesday and along with her TikTok it is tagged in my video over there," Shannon wrote. "We love you guys. We appreciate everyone that has sent well wishes they have sent their prayers and everything for not just us before her kids."
Shannon also noted that the family will be honoring Cardwell — who was mother to two girls: Kaitlyn Elizabeth, born in 2012, and Kylee Madison, born in 2015 — by doing something she loved at her funeral: "the Tina dance."
"Her ceremony will be a short, but amazing service with so many of her songs," said the Mama June: Road to Redemption star. "And we're doing something for her, which is going to be the Tina dance with her as one of her last things, because as all y'all know that bitch loved to do the Tina dance."
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Shannon shared over the weekend that her heart was "breaking" after her daughter's death.
"We are announcing that @annamarie35 is no longer with us. She passed away in my home last night peacefully at 11:12 PM," she wrote alongside a photo of Caldwell with her family, including her sisters Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Efird and Jessica "Chubbs" Shannon.
She added, "We love y’all and continued prayers and thoughts for our family doing this difficult time."
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