Joseph Drew Sr.

JOSEPH DREW SR. Solemn requiem Mass for Joseph Drew Sr., 83, of 2 N. 27th st., will be celebrated Wednesday at 10 a.m. in St. Joseph's Pro-Cathedral, 29th and Federal sts. Friends will meet at 9 a.m. in the Edward P. Leonard Jr. Funeral Home, 35th st. and River ave., where they may call tomorrow night. Burial will be in Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery, Philadelphia. Mr. Drew, who died Saturday in Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, was born in Paterson and was a Camden resident 50 years. An Army sergeant in the Spanish American War, he served in Cuba and in the Philippines. He was national junior vice commander in chief of the VFW in 1912-13. He was an organizer of Cpl. Mathew-Purnell Post 518, VFW; a member of Post 980, VFW, and J. C. Cunningham Garrison 51, Army and Navy Union. He was a retired Pennsylvania Railroad freight agent. Surviving are a son, Deputy Chief Joseph Drew Jr. of the Newark Fire Department; two daughters, Mrs. Ethel A. Keefe of Camden and Mrs. Mary E. Lynch, with whom he resided; three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.