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                                                           Exhibit 24

                        POWER OF ATTORNEY
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      KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned
directors and officers of Angelica Corporation (hereinafter referred to
as the "Company") hereby constitutes and appoints Don W. Hubble, T.M.
Armstrong, and L. Linden Mann and each of them acting singly, the true
and lawful agents and attorneys, or agent and attorney, with full powers
of substitution, resubstitution and revocation, for and in the name,
place and stead of the undersigned to do any and all things and to
execute any and all instruments which said agents and attorneys, or any
of them, may deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply
with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any rules,
regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission
in respect thereof, in connection with the Annual Report on Form 10-K of
the Company for the fiscal year ended January 30, 1999, including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, full
power and authority to sign the name of each of the undersigned in the
capacities indicated below to the said Annual Report on Form 10-K to be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and to any and all
amendments to said Annual Report on Form 10-K, and each of the
undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and agents, and to each of
them singly, full power and authority to do and perform on behalf of the
undersigned every act and thing whatsoever necessary or appropriate to
be done in the premises as fully as the undersigned could do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys and agents, or
any of them, or the substitutes or substitute of them or any of them,
shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 30th day of March, 1999.


/s/ Don W. Hubble                 /s/ T. M. Armstrong
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      (Don W. Hubble)                     (T.M. Armstrong)
 Chairman, President and Chief         Senior Vice President-
      Executive Officer              Finance and Administration
 (Principal Executive Officer)        Chief Financial Officer
                                   (Principal Financial Officer)

                                  /s/ L. Linden Mann
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                                           (L. Linden Mann)
                                             Controller
                                   (Principal Accounting Officer)

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/s/ David A. Abrahamson           /s/ Susan S. Elliott
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(David A. Abrahamson)             (Susan S. Elliott)
 Director                         Director

/s/ Earle H. Harbison, Jr.        /s/ Leslie F. Loewe
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(Earle H. Harbison, Jr.)          (Leslie F. Loewe)
 Director                         Director

/s/ Charles W. Mueller            /s/ William A. Peck
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(Charles W. Mueller)              (William A. Peck)
 Director                           Director

/s/ William P. Stiritz            /s/ H. Edwin Trusheim
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(William P. Stiritz)              (H. Edwin Trusheim)
 Director                           Director