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Private First Class Chester J. Gdowik of 947 Jackson Street, Camden, served with the 6th Armored Infantry Battalion, 1st Armored Division. A South Camden native who worked in the machine shop at New York Shipbuilding before his induction, he was killed in action in Italy on May 25, 1944.
John Lozowski, Private, VMSB-341, U.S. Marine Corps, was killed on April 8, 1943, when his plane crashed at Atlantic Field, North Carolina. He is buried at St. Joseph Cemetery in Gloucester Township, NJ. He had lived at 1143 Sheridan Street in Camden, NJ.
City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.
Korean War veteran Stan Bednarczyk of Audubon remembers his Camden next-door neighbor Chester Gdowik — the big kid who invented "Mr. Muscles", played third base for the Falcons, and was killed in Italy in 1944 — in a Memorial Day column for the Courier-Post.
Obituary for Mrs. Mary Lambert, 67, of 1219 South Tenth Street, a member of St. Joseph's Church societies, survived by her husband John, son Conrad, and four daughters.
The Camden Courier-Post announces a full military funeral for Pvt. Chester J. Gdowik, killed in action in Italy on May 25, 1944, with High Mass at St. Joseph's Church and burial at St. Joseph's cemetery, Chews Landing.
The body of Marine Private John Lozowski, 20, killed in a training-flight plane crash at Atlantic Field, N.C., was returned to Camden for burial from St. Joseph's Church.
A January 1943 Camden Courier-Post notice that Sgt. Gus Dzingoski — the first World War II casualty of St. Joseph's Catholic Church — would be buried with full military honors, with an American Legion ritual in his mother's home and a Solemn High Mass of Requiem at the church.