Doreen Kelly Schwingler

I was born and raised at 3007 Carman Street in East Camden. I attended Cramer Elementary School and then Woodrow Wilson High School. Upon marrying, my husband and I bought the home down the street from my parents at 3081 Carman Street, just doors from Woodrow Wilson.

It was a nice place to grow up and I have many happy memories of friends and neighbors there. I loved Dudley Grange park and remember the library well. It's sad that the politicians let it all go… what a loss.

3007 Carman Street was built and purchased by my grandfather, Milton A. Kelly. He lived there with his wife Charlotte until he passed away sometime around 1934. She sold the house to my father, Milton E. Kelly.

I was born in 1938 and was raised in a very loving home there. When I married in 1957 and moved to 3081 Carman Street my parents moved to Haddonfield and sold the house to my brother, William R. Kelly. In the late 1960s he moved to New York and sold the house.

The deck in front of 3007 was added after we left there.

As a child, I never knew Mr. Letts. Mrs. Letts was a widow and would let me climb through our adjacent porches to go to her house. She sold her house to Frank Small and his wife, I am not sure when. The Smalls and my parents, together, made big changes to the front of those properties.

— Doreen Kelly Schwingler, February 2008