DATE: Monday, May 12, 1997                  TAG: 9705120019

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IRENE D. HARLAN

Irene ``Dally'' Dalrymple Harlan of Hermitage Road, passed away May 11, 1997, in a hospital after a long illness with cancer.

A native of Portland, Ore., Mrs. Harlan attended Jefferson High School and St. Helen's Hall in Portland and Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. She was employed by the Portland Oregonian News when she volunteered for naval service in 1943. After completing naval training at Hunter College, New York, and journalism school at Oklahoma State University, Mrs. Harlan served in the writers unit of the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., until the end of World War II. She was then employed by the Bureau of Aeronautics in Coronado, Calif., until married in 1948.

As a Navy wife, Mrs. Harlan served as a volunteer senior interviewer for the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society for 30 years. Most of this volunteer work was performed at Navy Relief office, Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va. Additional service was performed by Mrs. Harlan as the appointed Navy Wives Ombudsman for those ships to which her husband was assigned. Before becoming ill she was an avid aerobic dancer, and earlier, a Cub Scout den mother, a substitute public schoolteacher, and a neighborhood fund-raiser for many charitable organizations. She will be remembered for her quick humor, strong diplomacy, fiery patriotism, and her deep sincerity for the underprivileged.

Mrs. Harlan was a member of Bayside Presbyterian Church (Circle 2), Virginia Beach; Taipei Women's Club, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; and the Eta Alpha Chapter of Chi Omega Sorority at Oregon State University.

She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Captain Wick Harlan, U.S. Navy (Ret.); a son, Wick Tim, daughter-in-law, Trish Womeldorf and three grandchildren, Kelly, Christine and Matt, all of Norfolk; a niece, Mrs. Ann Johnston Swindells of Portland, Ore.; and many in-laws of Kentucky.

A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in Bayside Presbyterian Church by Dr. Richard Keever, Pastor, and Associate Pastor Rev. Will Kiser-Lowrance. Interment will follow in Rosewood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Bayside Chapel, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and at the Harlan residence immediately after the interment. Memorial donations may be made to the Presbyterian Women, Bayside Presbyterian Church, Ewell Road, Virginia Beach, Va. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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