Obituary of Doris Delaney

Doris A. Delaney, 87, of Iowa City, died peacefully Thursday, November 15, 2012, in Cedar Rapids. Funeral mass will be held 10:30 a.m., Monday, November 19, 2012, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Iowa City. Visitation will be from 3-6 p.m., Sunday at the Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City. Burial will be at St. Joseph Cemetery in Iowa City following mass. Doris was born October 2, 1925, in rural Henry county; daughter of James E. and Ruth Houdesheldt Beatty. She graduated from Washington High School in Washington, Iowa with the class of 1943. She attended the University of Iowa and Browns Commercial College in Iowa City and went on to work as a private secretary at the Iowa ordinance plant in Burlington. She also held various other secretarial positions in southern Iowa, Des Moines and Iowa City. Doris married Edwin T. Delaney on February 7, 1946 at St. James Church in Washington, Iowa. They resided in Iowa City for many years. Edwin passed away in 1999. Doris was a homemaker and an excellent seamstress using her talent to fabricate custom draperies professionally while her children were young, then returning to the workforce as a secretary and bookkeeper until her retirement in 1990. She had many interests but her love was for fiber arts which resulted in becoming proficient in dressmaking, needle working, knitting, quilting, spinning wool and weaving fabrics on her loom. She also loved reading and was very content reading for hours, even embracing the electronics age of computers and iPads that gave her the ability to always have a book at hand. Her family includes her children Bill (Pam) Delaney, Kathleen (Steve) Fullerton, Jo Marie (Rick) Hite all of Cedar Rapids, Jim (Terry) Delaney of Coralville, Tom Delaney of Des Moines and sister, Dorthea McDole of Washington, Iowa as well as numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.