Nevin P. Dellinger

Nevin P. Dellinger was born in New Market in 1932. He graduated from New Market High School in 1950 and the same year enlisted in the US Army for a three year period. 

Dellinger deployed to Korea as a part of the 15th Infantry Division where he served in a motor vehicle company. A report on his service in the Shenandoah Herald noted his letters observed “fighting was severe and the soldiers’ sleeping quarters for most part were in fox holes.”

Nevin Dellinger continues to live in the New Market community of Shenandoah County.