‘There but for the grace of God’

In April 1912, Delia “Biddie” Greene, born in County Rosaommon, Ireland, was driven on the handle bars of a bike by her Uncle Willy to a dock to get a ship to America.

When they got there, the Titanic had already sailed. Sixteen-year-old Delia sat and cried and said now she would never get to America.

Uncle Willy, a shipping agent, put her on the next ship to sail to America.

After passing through Ellis Island, Delia lived with an aunt and worked as a nanny, including for John Reed Kilpatrick, a NYC business man who ran MSG for 25 years.

Delia married Patrick Beglane in 1925 and moved to Woodside, where she lived until her death in 1991 at the age of 95.

Delia gave birth to seven sons. I was fortunate to be number six.

There but for the grace of God. .

Jack Beglane Warwick