- Date Of Birth: February 20, 1913
- Date Of Death: February 21, 2008
- State: Maryland
Della Pauline Riley Rasmussen, age 95 of Westminster, died Thursday February 21, 2008 at Carroll Lutheran Village Healthcare Center. She was born February 20, 1913 in Adams County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of the late Norman E. and M. Alice Martin Riley. She was the wife of the late CW04, Robert L. Rasmussen, Ret’d, who she married on April 25, 1953.
She graduated from Emmitsburg High School in 1932 and from University of Maryland, School of Nursing, 1936, as a Registered nurse. She was a lifetime member of the Church of the Incarnation, United Church of Christ, Emmitsburg.
Upon graduation, she worked at the University of Maryland Hospital and entered service as a Red Cross Nurse. She was called to active duty in the Army Nurse Coprs, April 1941at Fort George G. Meade. In 1943 she was assigned to the 26th Field Hospital, Persian Gulf Command, Abadan, Iran for two years and for seven months in France. During her service in World War II, she received the European Africa Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and the American Defense Service medal. Upon her return to the United States in 1945, she was assigned to the 48th General Hospital, followed by assignments to Walter Reed Hospital, European Command, Bremerhaven, Germany, 98th General Hospital, Fort Bragg, and Fort George G. Meade. She was honorably discharged from the Army Nurse Corps in 1953 and later retired after thirty years of service in the Army Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
She is survived by her sister-in-law Lalia S. Riley of Sykesville; her nephew and his wife, Arthur and Vickie Riley of Westminster; nieces and their spouses Janet and Allen Colburn of New Windsor, Marjorie and Fredric Lohnes and Donna R. Riley of Westminster; her brothers, Ray David Riley and infant Ernest Martin Riley predeceased her.
