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Franklyn Lowery Delaney
Franklyn Lowery Delaney was the son of Martin Cleveland Delaney, Sr. and Edwina Acker (Lowery) Delaney. He was born on October 15, 1912, at the family home located at 412 E. 2nd Street, Brooklyn, New York. Frank attended PS 9, PS 199 and PS 99 and graduated from Manual Training High School in Brooklyn. He attended George Williams College in Chicago, the University of Chicago, and was a graduate of Utah State University, located in Logan Utah.
Frank and Dorothy Abbott met in 1938 at Baker Camp in Sloatsburg, New York. Dorothy was working for Bankers Trust, which was one of the four banks that owned Baker Camp for use by their employees. Frank was a swimmer and he was working as a life guard at Baker Camp when they met. They were engaged on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1941 at the home of Frank and Florence (Dorothy’s sister) Siconolfi in Elmont, Long Island, New York. Dorothy and Frank Delaney were married on April 12, 1942 in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York. Their honeymoon party was at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe Restaurant, with Dorothy’s sister Ella Abbott and Jo and Martin Delaney. Their son, Robert Franklyn Delaney, was born on November 12, 1945 at the U.S. Navy Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.
After graduating from college, Frank was employed by the Census Bureau in Washington, DC, where he worked on the 1940 census until he went into the U.S. Navy when WWII broke out. During the war, he saw action in the Mediterranean Sea where he served on LCI(L) 220. He received the Silver Star Medal and citation for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving in LCI(L) FLOTILLA ONE during the amphibious assault on Sicily, July 10, 1943.”
After the war, Frank worked for the National Tuberculosis Association in New York City. In 1946, he traveled to Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and Austin to assist the local TB Associations with their fund-raising, and in 1948 he became the Executive Director of the TB Association for Ventura County, California. In August 1948, Dorothy and Robert joined him and they lived for three years in El Rio, California, which is located near Oxnard. In March of 1951, they moved to 551 Frances Street in Ventura, California, where Frank lived until his death. Frank retired from the TB Association, which by then was known as the American Lung Association of Ventura County, after 38 years of service with the organization.
Frank Delaney played lacrosse in high school and swam in his college days. He was a lifelong photographer and enjoyed a number of hobbies, including serigraphy and gardening.
Franklyn Lowery Delaney died in Ventura, California on May 3, 2004, at age 91.
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