Pauline Mangin

Pauline Barbara Mangin, 91, died peacefully in her sleep on March 23, 2017.

Mrs. Mangin was born in Westerly, Rhode Island to Frank Howard Tillotson and Beatrice Dora Metthe.  A native of Connecticut, she spent her early years in Stonington, where her parents ran a delicatessen.  She later lived in Danielson and Norwich.

She graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in 1943.  She received multiple scholarships to attend the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she graduated in 1947 with a B.A. in History.  She moved to Washington, D.C. to study library science at Catholic University.  She graduated in 1949 with a B.S. in Library Science.

While working in the university library, she met her husband, the late Daniel F. Mangin.  They married in June 1948, and in 1951, moved to Wheaton, Maryland to raise a family.

Mrs. Mangin was a member of St. Catherine Labouré Catholic Church.  In the 1980s, she was a volunteer librarian at St. Catherine's elementary school and later at Good Counsel High School.

In 1988, she and her husband retired and moved to in Orrtanna, Pennsylvania.  They also owned a residence in Naples, Florida.  In retirement, she enjoyed gardening, oil painting, and genealogy.  After her husband's death in 2004, she moved to Frederick, Maryland, and later Mount Airy.

She is survived by her six children: Barbara Steele, of Baltimore; Daniel Mangin, of Novato, California; Julie Mangin, of Silver Spring; Carol Jackson, of Highland, New York; Jeanne Jones, of Ijamsville; and Frank Mangin, of Jacksonville, Florida; seventeen grandchildren; and thirteen great-grandchildren.

Services were privately held.