October 28, 1908 - December 25, 2008
After one hundred remarkable years on earth, Margaret Mullen completed her journey here on Christmas Night when she peacefully slipped into Heaven.
Born in Troy, Kansas on October 28, 1908, she was the oldest of seven children and outlived all her siblings. Her Irish father and German mother were children of immigrants who settled on Kansas and Missouri farms.
Helping with chores, was a necessity, and getting through school was a hardship on those days, yet "Maggie" dreamed of going to Nursing School. By working to pay for training, she graduated from St. Joseph's School of Nursing in Kansas City, MO in 1929.
Later that year, she married John T. Mullen, a telephone company engineer who worked in Missouri and Indiana. Their three children were all born in Indiana. When her husband's health failed, they were urged by doctors and friends who were enjoying the dry climate of Colorado, to come out west. They bought a small farm in Manzanola, CO and started over, however, John died several years later.
Her passion for nursing served her well to support her family and satisfy her need to help others. She worked actively for 53 years in small private hospitals and doctors' offices, teaching hygiene and health care in migrant camps, being midwife, 4-H Health Leader, and Nursing Home supervisor. She helped to raise funds and find staff for the new Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Rocky Ford, and was later a supervisor there. Maggie said her most rewarding years were working as a Public Health Nurse for Otero County. Later, she moved to Grand Junction and worked at Community Hospital until her retirement in 1983. She was the recipient of many awards over the years, and especially treasured the Nightingale Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Nurses Association in 2003. They also had a star in the universe named "Nurse Maggie Mullen" in her honor.
Always very social, Margaret took art lessons and did beautiful charcoal drawings and watercolor paintings, made ceramics and tote bags, traveled, played bridge often and kept beautiful flower gardens.
Being independent and self reliant was always important to her, and a strong faith in God and a love for serving people kept her young at heart. Her parting words in most conversations were, "What can I do for you?". After a fall limited her mobility, she made her home at Mantey Heights Care Center and has been blessed with excellent care and loving attention from her angels there and at Hospice.
Margaret's three children survive. They and their spouses are John Kile and Carol Mullen of Florissant, MO; Mary Sue and Ronald Bonds of Grand Junction, CO and Dorothy and Jerry Hampton of Walden, CO. There are 11 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
Thanks to Mantey Heights and her family, Maggie's 100th Birthday was a wonderful celebration of her life. Friends, family and many organizations honored her and her achievements. She was grateful and blessed by such a tribute. There will be a family memorial service at a later date.
Margaret put her heart into helping others through nursing and had a concern for nurses trying to improve their education. Those who wish may remember her with a memorial contribution to The Nursing Excellence Scholarship Fund at Community Hospital Foundation, 2021 N. 12th St., Grand Junction, CO 81501. The family is grateful for all the love and kindness expressed to her.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
January 4, 2009
After one hundred remarkable years on earth, Margaret Mullen completed her journey here on Christmas Night when she peacefully slipped into Heaven.
Born in Troy, Kansas on October 28, 1908, she was the oldest of seven children and outlived all her siblings. Her Irish father and German mother were children of immigrants who settled on Kansas and Missouri farms.
Helping with chores, was a necessity, and getting through school was a hardship on those days, yet "Maggie" dreamed of going to Nursing School. By working to pay for training, she graduated from St. Joseph's School of Nursing in Kansas City, MO in 1929.
Later that year, she married John T. Mullen, a telephone company engineer who worked in Missouri and Indiana. Their three children were all born in Indiana. When her husband's health failed, they were urged by doctors and friends who were enjoying the dry climate of Colorado, to come out west. They bought a small farm in Manzanola, CO and started over, however, John died several years later.
Her passion for nursing served her well to support her family and satisfy her need to help others. She worked actively for 53 years in small private hospitals and doctors' offices, teaching hygiene and health care in migrant camps, being midwife, 4-H Health Leader, and Nursing Home supervisor. She helped to raise funds and find staff for the new Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Rocky Ford, and was later a supervisor there. Maggie said her most rewarding years were working as a Public Health Nurse for Otero County. Later, she moved to Grand Junction and worked at Community Hospital until her retirement in 1983. She was the recipient of many awards over the years, and especially treasured the Nightingale Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Nurses Association in 2003. They also had a star in the universe named "Nurse Maggie Mullen" in her honor.
Always very social, Margaret took art lessons and did beautiful charcoal drawings and watercolor paintings, made ceramics and tote bags, traveled, played bridge often and kept beautiful flower gardens.
Being independent and self reliant was always important to her, and a strong faith in God and a love for serving people kept her young at heart. Her parting words in most conversations were, "What can I do for you?". After a fall limited her mobility, she made her home at Mantey Heights Care Center and has been blessed with excellent care and loving attention from her angels there and at Hospice.
Margaret's three children survive. They and their spouses are John Kile and Carol Mullen of Florissant, MO; Mary Sue and Ronald Bonds of Grand Junction, CO and Dorothy and Jerry Hampton of Walden, CO. There are 11 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
Thanks to Mantey Heights and her family, Maggie's 100th Birthday was a wonderful celebration of her life. Friends, family and many organizations honored her and her achievements. She was grateful and blessed by such a tribute. There will be a family memorial service at a later date.
Margaret put her heart into helping others through nursing and had a concern for nurses trying to improve their education. Those who wish may remember her with a memorial contribution to The Nursing Excellence Scholarship Fund at Community Hospital Foundation, 2021 N. 12th St., Grand Junction, CO 81501. The family is grateful for all the love and kindness expressed to her.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
January 4, 2009
October 28, 1908 - December 25, 2008
After one hundred remarkable years on earth, Margaret Mullen completed her journey here on Christmas Night when she peacefully slipped into Heaven.
Born in Troy, Kansas on October 28, 1908, she was the oldest of seven children and outlived all her siblings. Her Irish father and German mother were children of immigrants who settled on Kansas and Missouri farms.
Helping with chores, was a necessity, and getting through school was a hardship on those days, yet "Maggie" dreamed of going to Nursing School. By working to pay for training, she graduated from St. Joseph's School of Nursing in Kansas City, MO in 1929.
Later that year, she married John T. Mullen, a telephone company engineer who worked in Missouri and Indiana. Their three children were all born in Indiana. When her husband's health failed, they were urged by doctors and friends who were enjoying the dry climate of Colorado, to come out west. They bought a small farm in Manzanola, CO and started over, however, John died several years later.
Her passion for nursing served her well to support her family and satisfy her need to help others. She worked actively for 53 years in small private hospitals and doctors' offices, teaching hygiene and health care in migrant camps, being midwife, 4-H Health Leader, and Nursing Home supervisor. She helped to raise funds and find staff for the new Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Rocky Ford, and was later a supervisor there. Maggie said her most rewarding years were working as a Public Health Nurse for Otero County. Later, she moved to Grand Junction and worked at Community Hospital until her retirement in 1983. She was the recipient of many awards over the years, and especially treasured the Nightingale Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Nurses Association in 2003. They also had a star in the universe named "Nurse Maggie Mullen" in her honor.
Always very social, Margaret took art lessons and did beautiful charcoal drawings and watercolor paintings, made ceramics and tote bags, traveled, played bridge often and kept beautiful flower gardens.
Being independent and self reliant was always important to her, and a strong faith in God and a love for serving people kept her young at heart. Her parting words in most conversations were, "What can I do for you?". After a fall limited her mobility, she made her home at Mantey Heights Care Center and has been blessed with excellent care and loving attention from her angels there and at Hospice.
Margaret's three children survive. They and their spouses are John Kile and Carol Mullen of Florissant, MO; Mary Sue and Ronald Bonds of Grand Junction, CO and Dorothy and Jerry Hampton of Walden, CO. There are 11 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
Thanks to Mantey Heights and her family, Maggie's 100th Birthday was a wonderful celebration of her life. Friends, family and many organizations honored her and her achievements. She was grateful and blessed by such a tribute. There will be a family memorial service at a later date.
Margaret put her heart into helping others through nursing and had a concern for nurses trying to improve their education. Those who wish may remember her with a memorial contribution to The Nursing Excellence Scholarship Fund at Community Hospital Foundation, 2021 N. 12th St., Grand Junction, CO 81501. The family is grateful for all the love and kindness expressed to her.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
January 4, 2009
After one hundred remarkable years on earth, Margaret Mullen completed her journey here on Christmas Night when she peacefully slipped into Heaven.
Born in Troy, Kansas on October 28, 1908, she was the oldest of seven children and outlived all her siblings. Her Irish father and German mother were children of immigrants who settled on Kansas and Missouri farms.
Helping with chores, was a necessity, and getting through school was a hardship on those days, yet "Maggie" dreamed of going to Nursing School. By working to pay for training, she graduated from St. Joseph's School of Nursing in Kansas City, MO in 1929.
Later that year, she married John T. Mullen, a telephone company engineer who worked in Missouri and Indiana. Their three children were all born in Indiana. When her husband's health failed, they were urged by doctors and friends who were enjoying the dry climate of Colorado, to come out west. They bought a small farm in Manzanola, CO and started over, however, John died several years later.
Her passion for nursing served her well to support her family and satisfy her need to help others. She worked actively for 53 years in small private hospitals and doctors' offices, teaching hygiene and health care in migrant camps, being midwife, 4-H Health Leader, and Nursing Home supervisor. She helped to raise funds and find staff for the new Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Rocky Ford, and was later a supervisor there. Maggie said her most rewarding years were working as a Public Health Nurse for Otero County. Later, she moved to Grand Junction and worked at Community Hospital until her retirement in 1983. She was the recipient of many awards over the years, and especially treasured the Nightingale Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Nurses Association in 2003. They also had a star in the universe named "Nurse Maggie Mullen" in her honor.
Always very social, Margaret took art lessons and did beautiful charcoal drawings and watercolor paintings, made ceramics and tote bags, traveled, played bridge often and kept beautiful flower gardens.
Being independent and self reliant was always important to her, and a strong faith in God and a love for serving people kept her young at heart. Her parting words in most conversations were, "What can I do for you?". After a fall limited her mobility, she made her home at Mantey Heights Care Center and has been blessed with excellent care and loving attention from her angels there and at Hospice.
Margaret's three children survive. They and their spouses are John Kile and Carol Mullen of Florissant, MO; Mary Sue and Ronald Bonds of Grand Junction, CO and Dorothy and Jerry Hampton of Walden, CO. There are 11 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
Thanks to Mantey Heights and her family, Maggie's 100th Birthday was a wonderful celebration of her life. Friends, family and many organizations honored her and her achievements. She was grateful and blessed by such a tribute. There will be a family memorial service at a later date.
Margaret put her heart into helping others through nursing and had a concern for nurses trying to improve their education. Those who wish may remember her with a memorial contribution to The Nursing Excellence Scholarship Fund at Community Hospital Foundation, 2021 N. 12th St., Grand Junction, CO 81501. The family is grateful for all the love and kindness expressed to her.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
January 4, 2009
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