Olive Mangini

OBITUARY

LAGRONE FUNERAL CHAPEL

DECEMBER 8, 2007

ROSWELL DAILY RECORD NEWS

MANGINI, OLIVE J. Services for Olive J. Mangini, age 83, of Roswell, who passed away December 6, 2007, will be held Sunday, December 9, 2007, at 1:00 P.M. at LaGrone Funeral Chapel.

Olive Mangini was born August 12, 1924 to Louis and Genevieve Mangini in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Medford Massachusetts High School and worked as a secretary at Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. In 1957 she entered Shepherd-Gill Nursing School, affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. After graduating, she worked there for a year and then went to Alaska and worked with US Public Service at native hospitals in the Bush country of Bethel, Tanana, Sitka and Wraugel, where she was able to see more of Alaska, as the nurses often went with the doctors by bush plane to many small villages where a clinic would be held. After four years, she entered the Peace Corps. She trained in Hawaii for her assignment in Sarawak, as a nurse-midwife for eight villages of Longhouses in the jungle, as well as the hospital nurse at Princess Margarets Hospital in Borneo. She then returned to Alaska and worked there until 1967.

She moved to Nevada and was offered the opportunity to return to secretarial work at a flight school. She met and married Arthur P. Gatewood, a pilot and instructor. Moving several times, she worked as the Respiratory Nurse at a hospital in Alpena, Michigan, a nurse in a shirt factory in Washington, North Carolina, and geriatric nursing at the County Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee before moving to Roswell in 1972. In Roswell, her husband formed Great Southwest Aviation and she was able to help in the office. She then returned to nursing at the Chaves County Health office, St. Marys Hospital and finally as Unit Manager when Casa Maria opened. She retired in 1989, but did continue some part time at the Chaves County Health office.
POlive was always interested in homemaking, decorating and antiquing. She also loved to travel starting as a young girl exploring and climbing all the lighthouses on the New England coast, which helped to relieve her asthma. Later, trips on freighters, coastwise to New Orleans, with many stops and than a Banana Boat to Guatemala and Honduras. Answering an ad in the New York Times, she was able to join a group from

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