Camden Courier-Post, May 21, 1928View transcription
JOSEPH SPARKS
Policeman Joseph Sparks, city employe 17 years, died early Saturday at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital where he had been ill three weeks. Death was due to spinal meningitis.
Sparks had been a junior captain in Fire Company No. 7, Mt. Ephraim and Kaighn avenues, for seven years, until 1918 when he became a patrolman.
He contracted pneumonia several weeks ago and was taken to the hospital from his home, 20 North Twenty-eighth street. The fatal ailment developed soon after. He was 44.
His wife, Emma, died two years ago. They had no children. He is survived by five sisters, Mary, Anna, Ellen and Mabel Sparks and Mrs. Agnes Ramp, all of South Westville, and three brothers, William, of Camden, and John and James of South Westville.
The funeral will be held tomorrow morning from the home of his sister, Miss Mary Sparks, Hoffman lane, South Westville. High mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. at St. Joseph's Church, Camden. Burial will be private.
He contracted pneumonia several weeks ago and was taken to the hospital from his home, 20 North Twenty-eighth street. The fatal ailment developed soon after. He was 44.
His wife, Emma, died two years ago. They had no children. He is survived by five sisters, Mary, Anna, Ellen and Mabel Sparks and Mrs. Agnes Ramp, all of South Westville, and three brothers, William, of Camden, and John and James of South Westville.
The funeral will be held tomorrow morning from the home of his sister, Miss Mary Sparks, Hoffman lane, South Westville. High mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph's Church, Camden. Burial will be private.
