Manuel Mingoia

1926 - 2017

Manuel Edwin Mingoia

April 20, 1926 - September 13, 2017

Educator, avid traveler, generous volunteer are some of the roles for which Manuel Edwin Mingoia will be remembered. "Ed" Mingoia, as he was widely known, died at his San Francisco home after a long decline with pulmonary disease.
Ed's early schooling was in Los Gatos followed by attendance at Santa Clara University, Cal Berkeley and Bachelor and Master degrees from San Francisco State. While still a Cal student he began part-time teaching in San Pablo followed by full time years in Burlingame and Barstow elementary schools, retiring from the Elk Grove (Sacramento) school district as a language arts specialist. He was chosen by the US Department of Education to help teacher training programs twice in Ethiopia and once in Nepal.
Ed made two round-the-world trips, the first by sea and the second by air. He participated in more than 25 Road Scholar (Elderhostel) learning trips. Speaking both languages, he particularly enjoyed visits to Italy and Sicily (lineage).
Volunteering and support of humanitarian organizations increased after retirement including the SF Italian American Service Agency, as a facilitator for the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance at St. Francis Hospital and several civil rights organizations.
Manuel Edwin Mingoia is survived by Betty Romero (San Francisco), niece to her beloved uncle; nephew, John (Lisa) Sapone (Oceanside); predeceased this past July by his endeared sister, Isabelle Sapone. (Campbell/Oceanside) at age 107, and supportive cousins and friends. There were no services at his request; burial at Santa Clara Mission Cemetery Mausoleum.