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PRIVATE WILLIAM K. ROPER
was born on January 9, 1918 to Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Roper. As a youth he had lived at 2827 Yorkship
Road in Camden NJ. He was a January 1936 graduate of Camden High
School,
where he had played football, and was a member of the varsity football
and track teams his senior year. The Roper family later moved to 322
Harvard Avenue in Collingswood NJ. William Roper worked for RCA-Victor
in Camden, and had married prior to being inducted into the Army on
January 8, 1943. Private
William K. Roper was assigned to the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd
Infantry Division. He
was killed in action while serving in Italy on February 10, 1944. He was
survived by his wife Helen and a two year old daughter, Carol Roper, who
lived with his parents. He also left three sisters, Miss Helen Roper, of
New London CT, and the Misses Nora and Alma Roper, of the Harvard Avenue
address.
After the war, he was brought
home to the United States, and buried at Beverly National Cemetery in
Beverly NJ on August 7, 1948. He rests next to his wife, Helen R. Roper,
who passed away on April 12, 1993.
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