Paula Garvey Manship

MANSHIP, PAULA GARVEY Philanthropist and community leader Paula Garvey Manship died at the home of her niece, Nadine Carter Russell, at 4:30 a.m. Friday, March 31, 2006. She was 93. She was born in New Orleans on Sept. 10, 1912, and moved to Baton Rouge at the time of her marriage to the late Charles Phelps Manship Jr., later president of Capital City Press, which publishes The Advocate and formerly published the State-Times. The funeral will be held Monday, April 3, at 10 a.m. at St. Alban's Chapel on the LSU campus, conducted by the Rev. Howard L'Enfant, the Rt. Rev. Charles Jenkins and the Rev. Drew Rollins and assisted by William Jenkins, LSU System president. Throughout her entire life, she was involved in local charitable organizations beginning in her early married life with Goodfellows, which provided Christmas gifts and clothing to needy children. She served on numerous community boards and was a longtime member of the Decorators and Modern Reviewers. She was an avid traveler who toured Alaska at 90 and took an off-road Jeep adventure through the jungles of Mexico at 91. She was devoted to LSU and for decades attended every home football game and many out-of-town games. She established three chairs at the university including a chair in the LSU Department of History in memory of her late husband, a chair in her name in the Department of Internal Medicine Residency program in Baton Rouge through the LSU Health Sciences Center Foundation and a chair in honor of her niece, Nadine Carter Russell, in the LSU College of Art and Design. In 1999, the LSU Board of Supervisors granted Paula Garvey Manship an honorary doctorate degree. She was a major donor to numerous other departments and programs at LSU, including the LSU Museum of Art, the LSU School of Music, the LSU College of Art and Design, the LSU College of Arts & Sciences, the LSU Rural Life Museum, the LSU AgCenter and the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. She recently established the Atchafalaya Swamp and Otter Pond exhibit at the Baton Rouge Zoo and funded the planting of 300 trees to redevelop green spaces in downtown Baton Rouge through Baton Rouge Green. She was a major donor to the YMCA, the Baton Rouge Symphony, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, the Academic Distinction Fund, Hospice of Baton Rouge, Hilltop Arboretum, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, Northdale Academy, Association for Retarded Citizens, the Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation, the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, St. James Episcopal Church and St. Alban's Chapel. She established the Outdoor Sculpture Fund to preserve statues throughout Baton Rouge and was a major donor to the headquarters restoration of the Baton Rouge Bar Association's Middleton Bar Center. She provided an area for handicapped Scouts at the Istrouma Area Council Boy Scouts Avondale Scout Reservation. She was also a major donor to the Grace Church (Episcopal) School in New York City. She is survived by a brother, Charles Garvey; as well as nieces and nephews, Nadine Carter Russell, Anne Garvey, James Garvey and Michael Garvey, all of Georgia, Charles Garvey of Covington, Mary Laura Garvey and Rita Garvey Getzelman, both of California, Andrea Garvey Boyarko and Paula Garvey Klein, both of Colorado, Douglas Lewis Manship Jr., David Charles Manship, Richard French Manship, and Dina Manship Planche. She was predeceased by her husband; her parents, Nadine Carter Garvey and Walter Garvey; brother, Walter Garvey; and sisters Berenice Garvey Russell Haas and Mary Garvey. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of Baton Rouge, 9063 Siegen Lane, Suite A, Baton Rouge, LA 70810 or the Flower Fund at St. Alban's Chapel, P.O. Box 25183, Baton Rouge, LA 70894.