Daughter of:
Samuel J Mansfield
Vivian Ainsworth Mansfield
Her paternal grandfather, Jacob S. Mansfeld, wrote Tucson's first city charter.
She received her B.A. in 1930.
As state chairman of the Arizona Legislature Council in the 1950s, she lobbied to establish the Arizona Children's Colony for Retarded Children. She became the first chairman of the colony's board of directors. In addition, she served as president of Junior League of Tucson, president of Planned Parenthood Clinic, co-founder of the Family Service Agency, member of the Pima County Welfare Board, Sunday school teacher at St. Phillip's in the Hills Parish. She was an early leader in Arizona's preservation movement and chairman of the first historical sites committee of the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. There is a school named in her honor.
Contributed by Linda, Find A Grave 47219516.