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GROUND PLAN SKETCH <br />I INOIcwn NVMR[w •TORo[15 <br />FRONT <br />Louisville Times issues from the 1940s and 1950s, accessible through the online Colorado <br />Historic Newspaper Collection, show that Margaret Mancini was active in Louisville community <br />groups, particularly women's groups. She was a regular participant in the Busy Bee Friendship <br />Club. According to The Louisville Times, in 1948 Margaret hosted a "plastic party" at her home <br />at 908 Rex, with 28 women in attendance. (Such gatherings, which promoted the advantages of <br />plastic ware to housewives, were becoming common all over the United States at that time.) <br />In 1942, Rita Mancini married Herman Wisek. The 1949 directory for Louisville shows that the <br />household included Tony and Margaret Mancini, plus Rita and Herman Wisek. Soon, though, <br />Rita and Herman moved around the corner to 338 Main St. Other Gosselin, Mancini, and Wisek <br />relatives lived close by to 908 Rex over the years. <br />When Tony Mancini died in 1955, his wife Margaret became the sole owner of 908 Rex. The <br />same year, she conveyed ownership to herself and her daughter, Rita Mancini Wisek. Margaret <br />3 <br />