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A. Wayne Kraft (1934–2007), born Adelbert Wayne Kraft in Camden, grew up at 903 North 19th Street in Cramer Hill and served in the United States Army as a Specialist 4th Class. Appointed to the Camden Fire Department on June 29, 1962, he served more than 25 years before retiring on pension on February 1, 1988, and died on June 9, 2007.
Obituary of Francis X. Engel Sr., the Camden tavern owner who shot and wounded accused mass murderer Howard Unruh from an upstairs window during the 1949 Cramer Hill rampage. Camden Courier-Post, August 17, 1983.
Death notice for Edwin S. Wirtz of North Wildwood, formerly of Maple Shade, who died April 10, 1975; services from the Inglesby Funeral Home, Maple Shade, with interment at Northwood Cemetery.
Obituary for Lydia M. Gonce (née Mason), 79, wife of the late James Gonce of 501 Beideman Avenue, Camden. Funeral services at Keller Funeral Home, Maple Shade, with interment at Arlington Cemetery.
A family dinner at the Hawaiian Cottage in Maple Shade was to observe the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Faust of 825 State Street.
More than 500 boys club and Little League members will be guests at an amateur boxing show at Convention Hall to benefit the Frank H. Ryan Drop-A-Buck Club, with sponsors solicited by a committee headed by Police Insp. Anthony Skolski.
Camden Courier-Post, December 1, 1957: Anthony Mona, 38, of 4th Street near Atlantic Avenue, changed his plea to non vult on nine indictments for breaking and entering and larceny; Judge Martino set sentencing for Dec. 19 and continued his $50,000 bail.
Obituary of Francis J. Allaire, 54, a chef at the Hawaiian Cottage in Maple Shade, who died at his home at 2942 High Street; burial in Arlington Cemetery, Pennsauken.
Obituary for Louis G. Engel, Jr., 27, a former Maple Shade resident and 1953 Drexel Institute of Technology graduate working as a mechanical engineer for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., who died in a private plane crash in Akron, Ohio, in September 1955. Camden Courier-Post, September 29, 1955.
Camden Courier-Post - January 7, 1939. Two drivers in an automobile accident which resulted Sunday in the death of Robert Bumbrey, 57, of 735 Walnut street, were held in $1000 bail each for the grand jury.
Police raided five alleged speakeasies over the weekend, seizing whisky in four South Camden places, including six jugs at Samuel Arnow's grocery at 534 Kaighn Avenue, and arresting ten men at Mrs. Carrie Becker's home on North 33rd Street.
Miss Esther Markowitz, 1355 Park Boulevard, will become the bride of Harry Gross, a Philadelphia pharmacist, Sunday evening at Sons of Israel Synagogue, Eighth and Sycamore streets.