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Shirley DELANY

Antioch Cemetery
Tazewell County,
Illinois

Lt Col Shirley Cox Delany
27 - Feb - 1924 27- Feb - 2005
A flight nurse in the US Air Force from 1954 to 1976
A dear friend of the Antioch Cemetery
She is laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery

Shirley Jane Cox Delaney
Ms. Delaney entered the US Air Force in 1954 as a flight nurse on medical evacuation missions in remote locations during the Pacific Theater. She did tours of duty at Air Force bases around the world, ending as a Lt. Col. and Chief of Nursing at Barksdale AFB. She then served the community as an educator and director for the American Cancer Society. For these and many other roles, she was featured by the Shreveport Times as a “Good Neighbor”

Sec 54 Grave #6109

Contributed on 4/23/08 by lmt04
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Submitted: 4/23/08 • Approved: 4/30/08 • Last Updated: 4/13/18 • R11987-G11987-S3

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