
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 won approval of pensions under the mandatory age-65 retirement law in July 1950, to retire Aug. 31; 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., scheduled a banquet at O'Donnell's Restaurant and Cafe to observe its sixteenth anniversary on February 1, 1938; Mrs. Carrie R. Bean was among the guests listed.

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.