
Howard Bean
Howard Bean (1893–1950) was a Camden police sergeant, WWI veteran of the 312th Engineer Regiment, and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41.
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Howard Bean (1893–1950) was a Camden police sergeant, WWI veteran of the 312th Engineer Regiment, and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41.

Four Camden police officers and four firemen retired under the mandatory 65-year age law in 1950; also approved was a widow's pension for Mrs. Carrie Bean, whose husband Patrolman Howard Bean had died June 8.

Obituary of Howard Bean, 56, the Camden policeman and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41, who died June 8, 1950 at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, six days after retiring on pension.

As Camden opened its World War II drive to collect old aluminum for national defense, an unidentified South Camden resident of German birth was among the first donors, carrying his old pots and pans to Engine Company No. 8's firehouse.

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Corporal Mathews-Purnell Post No. 518, V.F.W., marked its sixteenth anniversary with a banquet at O'Donnell's Restaurant in February 1938; Mrs. Carrie R. Bean was among the guests.

Mrs. Carrie R. Bean, first president of the Camden County Council of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and junior vice president of the Department of New Jersey, honored at a banquet in August 1936.