Pauline Bick, age 87, of Worcester, Vermont, died at her home on March 3, 2011. She was born in Atchison, Kansas to German Lutheran parents, Frank and Charlotte (Schweim) Mangelsdorf. Pauline was the youngest of her parents four children.
When Pauline was still a schoolgirl, she began her interests in art, writing and social justice issues. She graduated a year early and went on to Iowa State. She attended school for three years and then joined the Women's Army Corps. She used her art to provide therapy at a military hospital in Florida.
After the war, she moved to New York City where she met her future husband, Robert Noel Bick. They were married May 16, 1948 and then moved to California. They had six children.
While Robert and Pauline were busy raising children, Pauline found the time to be a nurse's aide and she took art and writing lessons. She also stayed involved with her social activism, writing many letters to the local newspaper. The paper awarded her with the Silver Pen Award. With her stong political views, she joined the NAACP and helped African-Americans with discrimination issues.
Her husband died in 1979. Pauline went back to school and earned her psychiatric technician's license and worked in the state hospital near her home. Her children lived east and they had settled in the Montpelier area of Vermont. After her retirement in 1990, she decided to go to Vermont to be near her children.
Pauline stayed busy in her retirement years with her family; writing letters to the editor in local newspapers; she joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILF);and took art classes.
Pauline is survived by five of her six children; a sister; a niece and nephew; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
When Pauline was still a schoolgirl, she began her interests in art, writing and social justice issues. She graduated a year early and went on to Iowa State. She attended school for three years and then joined the Women's Army Corps. She used her art to provide therapy at a military hospital in Florida.
After the war, she moved to New York City where she met her future husband, Robert Noel Bick. They were married May 16, 1948 and then moved to California. They had six children.
While Robert and Pauline were busy raising children, Pauline found the time to be a nurse's aide and she took art and writing lessons. She also stayed involved with her social activism, writing many letters to the local newspaper. The paper awarded her with the Silver Pen Award. With her stong political views, she joined the NAACP and helped African-Americans with discrimination issues.
Her husband died in 1979. Pauline went back to school and earned her psychiatric technician's license and worked in the state hospital near her home. Her children lived east and they had settled in the Montpelier area of Vermont. After her retirement in 1990, she decided to go to Vermont to be near her children.
Pauline stayed busy in her retirement years with her family; writing letters to the editor in local newspapers; she joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILF);and took art classes.
Pauline is survived by five of her six children; a sister; a niece and nephew; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Pauline Bick, age 87, of Worcester, Vermont, died at her home on March 3, 2011. She was born in Atchison, Kansas to German Lutheran parents, Frank and Charlotte (Schweim) Mangelsdorf. Pauline was the youngest of her parents four children.
When Pauline was still a schoolgirl, she began her interests in art, writing and social justice issues. She graduated a year early and went on to Iowa State. She attended school for three years and then joined the Women's Army Corps. She used her art to provide therapy at a military hospital in Florida.
After the war, she moved to New York City where she met her future husband, Robert Noel Bick. They were married May 16, 1948 and then moved to California. They had six children.
While Robert and Pauline were busy raising children, Pauline found the time to be a nurse's aide and she took art and writing lessons. She also stayed involved with her social activism, writing many letters to the local newspaper. The paper awarded her with the Silver Pen Award. With her stong political views, she joined the NAACP and helped African-Americans with discrimination issues.
Her husband died in 1979. Pauline went back to school and earned her psychiatric technician's license and worked in the state hospital near her home. Her children lived east and they had settled in the Montpelier area of Vermont. After her retirement in 1990, she decided to go to Vermont to be near her children.
Pauline stayed busy in her retirement years with her family; writing letters to the editor in local newspapers; she joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILF);and took art classes.
Pauline is survived by five of her six children; a sister; a niece and nephew; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
When Pauline was still a schoolgirl, she began her interests in art, writing and social justice issues. She graduated a year early and went on to Iowa State. She attended school for three years and then joined the Women's Army Corps. She used her art to provide therapy at a military hospital in Florida.
After the war, she moved to New York City where she met her future husband, Robert Noel Bick. They were married May 16, 1948 and then moved to California. They had six children.
While Robert and Pauline were busy raising children, Pauline found the time to be a nurse's aide and she took art and writing lessons. She also stayed involved with her social activism, writing many letters to the local newspaper. The paper awarded her with the Silver Pen Award. With her stong political views, she joined the NAACP and helped African-Americans with discrimination issues.
Her husband died in 1979. Pauline went back to school and earned her psychiatric technician's license and worked in the state hospital near her home. Her children lived east and they had settled in the Montpelier area of Vermont. After her retirement in 1990, she decided to go to Vermont to be near her children.
Pauline stayed busy in her retirement years with her family; writing letters to the editor in local newspapers; she joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILF);and took art classes.
Pauline is survived by five of her six children; a sister; a niece and nephew; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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