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John H. Carroll (1861–1932) operated Carroll's Hotel and saloon at South 3rd and Cherry streets in Camden, ran a horse-and-wagon stable and an excavating business that graded Yorkship Village, and was a longtime Fifth Ward Republican committeeman.
26th Street, originally called Union Street in the pre-annexation Pavonia section, runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden from the Delaware River to Bank and Mickle Streets. It was laid out before 1887 and renamed after Stockton Township was absorbed by Camden in 1899.
Peter Pitner, 72, of Camden, a Navy veteran of World War II, longtime Fiber-Metal Co. worker and union secretary, and 44-year member of St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church, died at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center.
Death notice for Mary (nee Zurinski) Pitner, 60, wife of Peter Pitner of Camden, who died suddenly December 31, 1980, with funeral arrangements at Foster's Funeral Home and St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Death notice for Anne M. Wagner (nee McGlade) of 170 South Dudley Street, Camden, who died April 16, 1972; funeral from the Robert J. Blake Funeral Home, Collingswood. Camden Courier-Post, April 19, 1972.
Death notice for Margaret M. (nee Pepeta) Eckel, 68, wife of William H. Eckel of 2719 Pierce Avenue, Camden, with Mass at St. Anthony of Padua R.C. Church and interment at Calvary Cemetery.
Death notice for Carmella Troncone (nee Mecca), 94, widow of Fiore Troncone of 815 South 4th Street, whose funeral was held from the Troncone Funeral Home at 819 South 4th Street.
Death notice for Harry F. Juckett, 81, of 15 North 35th Street — a World War I veteran and retired Public Service Gas & Electric employee — with Requiem Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and interment at Calvary Cemetery, Cherry Hill.
Death notice of Joseph E. Desrocher Sr., 85, of 924 North 19th Street, Camden, who died April 26, 1970.
Death notice for Pauline U. Abate (nee Priola), 45, wife of Vincent Abate of 420 Viola Street, with her funeral from the Troncone Funeral Home and requiem Mass at Sacred Heart R.C. Church.
Mrs. Marie E. Simon, 68, of 20 Fogarty Avenue, known to an earlier generation of Camden newspapermen as "Mame Kenney" and to her neighbors as the "Mayor of Fogarty Ave.," died at West Jersey Hospital in February 1959.
The Camden Courier-Post death notice of February 14, 1958 for Thomas Hyde, 55, of 812 Howard Street, a life-long Camden resident who died in Cooper Hospital, survived by a brother, Richard, and a sister, Miss Ida Hyde.
Obituary of Domenic F. Persiano, 31, of 526 Royden Street, a Camden tailor and World War II veteran, from the Camden Courier-Post of December 10, 1957.
Obituary of James V. Paradise, 65, of 1030 Collings Road, a member of the Camden police force until his retirement in 1943 and later a guard for Acme Stores Co.
Death notice for Paul J. Dwyer, 56, husband of Mary L. (nee Hall), of 63 North Dudley Street, Camden, who died October 6, 1954; funeral at the Harry Leonard Funeral Home and interment at Calvary Cemetery. Camden Courier-Post, October 1954.
Obituary for Mrs. Natala Russo of 425 Winslow Street, born in Italy, a Camden resident more than 40 years and a member of the Rosary Society of Sacred Heart R. C. Church, survived by her husband Giacomo, three sons and eight daughters.
Frank Zurinski, 68, of 852 Woodland Avenue, a retired Baldwin-Lima Locomotive Co. employee and Camden resident for 37 years, died at home. A Solemn High Mass of requiem was set for St. Michael's Ukrainian R. C. Church, with burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Obituary of Mrs. Mary J. Carr, 63, of 128 North Twenty-first Street, mother of Motorcycle Patrolman Thomas J. Carr, who was employed at Howland Croft Sons & Co.
Obituary for Thomas Scarduzio Sr., who died in his home at 419 Winslow Street, his address for 35 years; a retired engineman in the round house of the old Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. Mass at Sacred Heart R.C. Church, burial in Calvary cemetery.
Obituary of Mrs. Mary D. McMillan, 80, of 105 North Twenty-first Street, who died at Lakeland Hospital after two years of illness; requiem Mass celebrated at St. Joseph's R.C. Church.
William L. Adams Sr., 61, of 553 North 28th Street, died at home. Born in South Camden, he was a longtime East Camden resident, former Standard Oil employee, and Holy Name Society member. Survived by widow Mary C., two sons, five daughters.
Camden Courier-Post, June 5, 1948 — funeral notice for Mrs. Emma G. Woods of 618 South Fifth Street, a life-long Camden resident, with Requiem Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Funeral notice for Frank Salerno, 58, of 424 South Fourth Street, whose Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church with burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Page 42 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the East Camden Coal Co. at 24th St. and Marlton Pike, Nick's Town Tavern at 7906 River Rd., Delair, Howard Johnson's Royal Cafe at 3827 Marlton Pike, Pennsauken, and Ben Niewinski's Cafe at 1898 River Ave., around an installment of the parish history telling how Father Shuvlin bought the former Saint Patrick's cemetery site for a new school, completed in 1929, and how the Rev. Charles G. McCorristin became pastor in January 1930.
A High Mass was set at the Church of the Sacred Heart for Dennis Conway, 40, of 693 Fairview Street, who died in West Jersey Hospital of injuries from an automobile accident in Gloucester; burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Funeral notice for John Francis McCabe, husband of Ida McCabe (nee Hoyt), formerly of Camden, who died suddenly at Pittsburgh on July 20, 1941. The funeral was held at Stanton's Funeral Home, 336 Carteret Street.
Obituary of Mrs. Margaret Ethridge, 75, widow of Jeremiah Ethridge, who died at 142 North Twenty-second Street after three months' illness; funeral at St. Joseph's Church, burial at Calvary Cemetery.
Camden Courier-Post, April 8, 1940. Capt. George M. Townsend, 45, of Fire-Engine Company No. 3 at Broadway and Emerald Street, died at his home on Stevens Street days after the death of Battalion Chief Rollo R. Jones of the same station.
Funeral arrangements for Lester R. Anderson, 38, of Engine Company No. 2, who died in his sleep at the Fifth and Arch Streets fire house; Arthur Batten was among the pallbearers, all members of the engine company.
Funeral notice for Frank Kasprzak, 32, of 1478 Louis Street, Camden, with services at St. Joseph's Polish Church and burial in Calvary Cemetery, February 1938.
The Camden Courier-Post funeral notice of February 18, 1938 for Mrs. Annie M. Johnston, wife of Daniel A. Johnston, who died at her home at 904 Howard Street; requiem high mass at the Church of the Holy Name and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Funeral services for Leo P. Bridgeman, 32, of 425 Bailey Street, who died yesterday following a long illness, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Church of the Holy Name, Fifth and Vine streets.
Requiem mass was celebrated in Sacred Heart Church for Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, 46, of 915 Broadway, wife of Patrolman John McTaggart, with burial in Calvary cemetery. Camden policemen formed a guard of honor and served as pallbearers.
Hundreds paid tribute to Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, wife of Patrolman John McTaggart, at the funeral home of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway. She died in Cooper Hospital while her husband's friends were honoring him at a St. Patrick's Day party in Eagles Hall.
Fellow officers of Policeman John McTaggart will form a guard of honor for Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, 46, at the Frank J. Leonard funeral home, 1451 Broadway. She died in West Jersey hospital while her husband's friends were holding their annual frolic in his honor at Eagles' Hall.
Death notice for James Mahoney, 63, husband of Bridget Mahoney, with the funeral from his late residence at 1240 Everett Street and high mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart. Camden Courier-Post, March 28, 1932.
With the death toll from the gas blast at the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. plant at Locust and Cherry streets increased to 15, families began burying their dead; Spiro Cecich, 37, of 1815 Salem Street died in Cooper Hospital.
John Paradise, 84, of 607 South Fourth Street, one of the oldest Italian residents of Camden and a founder of the Italian Republican League, died after a two-week illness.
A nephew, John Donahue, contested the will of Nicholas Joseph Donahue, a former East Camden restaurant proprietor who had kept a restaurant on Federal Street near Twenty-fourth, before Judge Samuel M. Shay in the Camden County Orphans Court in September 1928, with executor Raymond Donges defending the will.
Funeral notice for Martha P. Cramp, 43, wife of Albert G. Cramp of 131 North 26th Street, with solemn high requiem mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
A Philadelphia Inquirer death notice for Jeremiah Deneen of 708 North 4th Street, Camden, who died December 25, 1906, aged 56.