This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MAGLIOLA, RICOTTA Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12242 Message Board Post: 12/26/2002 - GREENHURST - Gertrude L. Magliola, 69, formerly of 153 South Main St., died at 1:55 a.m. Wednesday (Dec. 25, 2002) in Heritage Green Health Care Center. A lifelong area resident, she was born May 2, 1933, in Jamestown, the daughter of the late Francesco and Frances Ricotta Magliola. She was a 1951 graduate of Falconer High School; received her bachelor of science, majoring in elementary education, in 1955 and masters of science in education in 1961, both from the State College at Fredonia; received a certificate in advanced studies in special education from Syracuse University in 1966; and worked on her doctorate degree at Penn State University. She had been employed by the Jamestown Public School System for 35 years, retiring in 2000.She was a life member of Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Church in Falconer, where she had sang in the choir and served as a lector. She was a life member of the National Education Association of the United States in Washington, D.C.,! Delta Kappa Gamma Society of the State of New York and was initiated in 1975 to the Kappa Chapter, and was a member of the New York State Retired Teachers Association. Besides her father, who died in 1968, and her mother, who died in 2001, she was preceded in death by a brother, Joseph Magliola, who died in 1966. Burial will be in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery.