| The Delahantys were originally from Fall River, and had something to to with the lead industry. Edna was Sophie's Mount Holyoke 1923 classmate, and in 1935 Sophie got to know Edna first cousin Captain Frank Delahanty and his wife Sue, who were neighbors in an apartment building in Portsmouth, Virginia. Frank had been a friend of Jack Barrett since 1917 and assisted him many times in his Navy career - in early 1936 Frank as a supply officer aboard the battleship WYOMING helped obtain provisions for the destroyer CLAXTON, which Jack Barrett commanded in gunnery and amphibious landing force exercises at Culebra, Puerto Rico. In 1938 Sue Delahanty met Sophie and young John between trains at Los Angeles while they were traveling from Philadelphia to Coronado, when Jack was executive officer of tanker TRINITY en route to the Philippines.The Barretts saw the Delahantys a number of times in Hawaii 1946-7.and after the war, Jack saw Frank at his Boston Navy Fargo Building office.In the 1970s Frank sent Sophie and John long detailed memoirs of Navy personalities and supply corps duty and especially the Naval War College. Sophie and John Barrett visited Frank and Sue at their retirement home at 380 W. Elm St. Brockton. Edna Delahanty had a long career teaching and lived in retirement two miles from the Barretts in Jamaica Plain with her sister. Edna attended 1978 and l983 Mount Holyoke reunions in South Hadley and often talked with Sophie by telephone.Edna was an enthusiastic baseball fan. |
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