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                                                                   Exhibit 24.1

                              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 James W. Shaffer 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 27, 2001, 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 27th day of March, 2001.


/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/ James W. Shaffer
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                                         (James W. Shaffer)
                                    Vice President and Treasurer
                                    (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/ Alan C. Henderson
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(Earle H. Harbison, Jr.)            (Alan C. Henderson)
Director                            Director

/s/ Charles W. Mueller              /s/ Stephen M. O'Hara
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(Charles W. Mueller)                (Stephen M. O'Hara)
Director                            Director

/s/ William A. Peck                 /s/ H. Edwin Trusheim
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(William A. Peck)                   (H. Edwin Trusheim)
Director                            Director

/s/ Kelvin R. Westbrook
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(Kelvin R. Westbrook)
Director