Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Because my maternal grandfather shed blood as a police officer in Chicago, I feel as if I 'own' Chicago, although my family left in 1952. I lived in the city off and on in my youth.

Alice Walker, granddaughter
Granddaughter Patrick Delaney

September 27, 2023

No passage of time will ever erase your service and sacrifice. Rest in peace always.

Detective Cpl/3 Steven Rizzo
Delaware State Police (Retired)

October 4, 2020

Dear Great Uncle,
My late mother, Mary Alice Klarmann nee Delaney, your niece, told us of her father and your brother, John Joseph Delaney, taking the train to be at your funeral arriving only to be at the grave side.
Edith Patricia Klarmann

Edith Patricia Klarmann
Great Niece

July 28, 2019

Dear Grandpa,

As I said earlier, I have always missed having a grandpa keeping an eye out for me. As I read through the reflections, I was struck by what my cousin, who I have known as Bobby Delaney, said about your loss impacting us to this very day.

What Bobby said had me remembering that when I turned to writing fulltime, one of the first pieces I wrote was about your loss to us. Since I am a fiction writer, the piece was fictionalized,
but it rose from what had happened to you. The piece was well received. It was published in several magazines, the newspaper, and read on public radio. I think you would have liked the policeman in my first novel, President Kennedy's Promises.

Bobby's reflection also had me remembering that when I was teaching, I once took my class to 11th and State to view your star and the stars of other murdered Chicago policemen. I also sometimes visited you, my uncles, and later Aunt Babe at Mt. Carmel.

I have a letter you wrote to grandma before you were married. I guess Bobby was right, grandpa, you have been and are with us to this day.

Mary P. Carroll, your oldest granddaughter

August 11, 2017

I always missed having a grandfather. I saw the stone on which you carved your name before you left from Ireland for America. I also saw your name on the Washington D. C. memorial for fallen police officers.

Mary P. Carroll
Mary, your oldest granddaughter

July 19, 2017

Grandpa, I have my da's original newspaper clippings of your murder and Uncle Jeremiah pulling out his service resolver in the court room trying to shoot the offender. My dad had your star number and passed it down to my brother Bill. I am anxious to meet you in heaven and see Grandma, my dad , mom and brother, Bill. RIP

Garnette C Delaney
Granddaughter

March 8, 2017

Great Grandpa Patrick,

I came across your page today. I am not sure what led me here, but fate took it's course and here I am, the day after your 88th anniversary of your last day on the force. Thank you for all you sacrificed and for you being the man that you were. I am proud to be a Delaney and even more proud to be a part of a family of a long line of Chicago Police officers. Thank God for the men and women who risk their lives so that we may be safe at home. Thanks Dad, Robert J. Delaney, for following in his footsteps and for being a police officer that many should strive to be. I love you!

Mallory G. Delaney
Great Granddaughter

October 5, 2015

Great Grandpa Patrick,

I came across your page today. I am not sure what led me here, but fate took it's course and here I am, the day after your 88th anniversary of your last day on the force. Thank you for all you sacrificed and for you being the man that you were. I am proud to be a Delaney and even more proud to be a part of a family of a long line of Chicago Police officers. Thank God for the men and women who risk their lives so that we may be safe at home.

Mallory G. Delaney
Great Granddaughter

October 5, 2015

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” (General George S. Patton, Jr.) I'm sorry we never had the opportunity to meet.

William F. Fessenden
Great Nephew

October 5, 2013

To fully appreciate the heroes of the present, we must recognize our heroes of the past. Your heroism and service is honored today, the 86th anniversary year of your death. I am privileged to leave a tribute to you. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer who was murdered in the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.

Time never diminishes respect. Your memory will always be honored and revered. Rest In Peace.

I am sure that you are proud that so many of your descendants have continued your legacy of protecting and serving.

Phyllis Lasater Loya
mom of fallen Pittsburg (CA) officer Larry Lasater

September 12, 2013

Rest in Peace, Sergeant Delaney. Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Officer 11169

April 27, 2012

Dear Grandpa,
I have thought of you and missed you as long as I can remember. I am sure you have a high place in heaven for all the sufferings you had to endure in life: especially the loss of three of your sons; James, Vincent and Joseph. What a loss you were to Grandma and to my Mother who used to tell wonderful stories of you and the people in Clogheen. Many a time I have stood by the wall on the Vee Road where you carved your name before you left Ireland for the States and wished I could have you next to me. You are the greatest loss in my life and I think of you almost every day with great affection. Your eldest Grandson Joe

Grandson - Joseph A. Carroll
Patrick Delaney's Grandson

March 19, 2012

Uncle Pat, I am a great nephew, whose parents grew up in Clougheen, County Tipperary, and Gory, County Wexford. I heard about you as a boy and was proud that a relative had been a Chicago Police Officer. After serving in the Marines, I also became a police officer in southern California. I know the job and know the risks you took, especially in those days. May God have mercy on your soul.

Semper Fi!
Patrick

Patrick M. Hayes
Great Nephew

December 4, 2011

Dear Great Grandfather,

Your daughter, Marie, was my grandmother. I know how devastating your death was to all of your family. You would be so proud to know that many of the family followed in your brave footsteps and became police officers. I would love to have met you and listened to your Irish brogue. May you RIP w/ God and his Saints.

Your great grandaughter,
Sarah

Sarah Carroll Gianelloni
Great Grandaughter

October 26, 2011

Dear Great Grandfather,

Your daughter, Marie, was my grandmother. I know how devastating the news of your death was to your wife, my great grandmother, and your daughter, my grandmother, and her siblings. Be proud of your family for following in your brave footsteps, as many of them are/were police officers too. How I would have loved to have known you and heard your Irish brogue. May you RIP w/ God and his Angels and his Saints.

Love,
Your great grandaughter,
Sarah

Sarah Carroll Gianelloni
Great Grandaughter

October 26, 2011

Although you made this sacrifice some 83 years ago we still remember you on this date in the CPD. Thank you.

Detective Thomas Downes
Chicago

October 4, 2010

Sgt. Delaney,
On today, the 81st anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of Chicago. And to your family and loved ones, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy. And like some of the previous reflections also stated, I'm disappointed as well that your murderer weren't given a more stiffer sentence than just 14 years.

R.I.P.
Anonymous

Anonymous

October 4, 2008

so awesome to see your grandosn carry on your legacy. there are true heroes among us.

December 10, 2007

You are remembered todayand thank you Sir for your srvice.

This writer is disappointed that justice was not served for you

Pat VanDen berghe
NH

October 14, 2007

Brother Delaney,

May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
And the rains fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Respectfully,
You’re Brothers in Blue

Untouchables LE Motorcycle Club

December 28, 2005

RIP
WE HAVE IT FROM NOW

July 5, 2005

May your memory always live on. God bless your family left behind. Grandson, (Officer Robert J. Delanley),I'm sure "Gramps" would be proud!

Mother of a Police Officer

September 9, 2004

Dear Gramps,
I'm sorry we never met and I'm even more sorry for what happened to you and your family; my grandmother, father, aunts and uncles. I believe your murder impacts us, your grandchildren, to this very day.
I think it would have been marvelous to sit on your lap and listen to your lore, musings, tales and anecdotes of our family and our ancestral home, Ireland.
I know you are proud of Annie and your kids. I hope you are proud of me and my brothers and sisters. I'm proud of you!
Your grandson, Robert Jopeph

Sergeant Robert J. Delaney
Chicago Police Department

February 10, 2004

Sergeant Delaney,
You are gone but not forgotten......Even today, 76 years later, you're still a hero.........

Anonymous

October 12, 2003