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Cecelia A. (Phalen) Doyle

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Title

Cecelia A. (Phalen) Doyle

Subject

Doyle, Cecelia Agnes Phalen (1924-1989)

Description

Two separate portrait photographs of Cecilia Agnes (Phalen) Doyle of Strasburg.

Her parents were Timothy Bernard and Lillian Ruth (Smith) Phalen. Her father was a well-known locomotive engineer for the B&O railroad.

In the 1940 census, she and her two younger brothers lived with their great aunt and uncle, Hugh and Ida Stoneburner, on "A" Street in Strasburg.

Her first husband was Floyd L. Derflinger, Jr. whom she married in 1942, a couple of years after this photograph was made. The marriage did not last as she re-married in 1946.

In the 1950 census, she lived in Miami, Florida, with her second husband, Bernie Doyle, a maintenance worker for a water heater manufacturer. Her mother and brother, James, lived with them.

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled, "Strasburg".

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Mar 1940".

Contributor

Identified in 2011 by Graham Conner who remembered that he used to sit behind her at Strasburg High School in 1939.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Identifier

022900

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citation

Morrison Studio, “Cecelia A. (Phalen) Doyle,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 3, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/52497.

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