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Camden has two separate 12th Streets: North Twelfth, which once ran from Federal Street to the Cooper River before being largely erased by highway construction, and South Twelfth, which runs from Fairview Street to Lakeshore Drive and is lined with post-World War II rowhouses.
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 for Paul M. (Beans) Frederick, husband of Mary (nee Murphy), of 2432 South 12th Street, Camden, who died June 17, 1959. (Camden Courier-Post, June 20, 1959.)
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.
Charley Humes's "Life Hereabouts" column of May 14, 1949, recalling the 1924 Broadway Cycle–Courier team that won the South Jersey semi-pro basketball championship, with Ott Laxton among the First Ward players remembered.
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.
Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1948: Mrs. Catherine Larkin Carr, wife of Detective Sergeant Clifford Carr, died at her home at 712 Royden Street after a long illness.
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.
Mrs. Jane H Dukes of 3803 Westfield Avenue was fatally stricken with heart disease while sitting on her porch; also a child struck by a motorcyclist, a wedding at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and the incorporation of the Sturdevant Corporation.
Plans were accepted for the new Catholic Lyceum Association Building to be erected at Broadway and Federal Streets by the members of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, with work to begin about May 1. Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 1896.