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TECHNICIAN
FIFTH CLASS ANGELO F. DERAGO, was born July 25, 1918 to Antonio and Margaret
Derago. The Deragos had come from Italy in 1899 with their oldest son
John and daughter Angelica. Antonio Derago found work with the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and in 1920 the family was living at 2038 High
Street in Camden, near the Pavonia switching yards. By 1930 the family
had moved around the corner, and was renting a home at 16 North 21st
Street in Camden NJ. Mr. Derago was working as a laborer in the nearby
railroad yards, son John was working as the engineer for an apartment
house, and two other sons, Robert, 21, and Anthony 17, were working at
the Campbell Soup Factory. Angelica had married, and sister Mary, then
17, was still at home. Angelo Derago, who went by his middle name
of Frank, followed his brothers and worked at Campbell Soup before
entering the Army in early 1941. He had made his home at 2014
Cooper Street, Camden NJ, in the same neighborhood in which he had grown
up. Sergeant
Derago Angelo F. Derago died while a member of the
United States Army during World War II. He was awarded the Silver
Star for gallantry in action against the Japanese on Leyte, and was
later wounded in fighting on the island of Mindanao on May 20, 1945.
Evacuated to an Army hospital in Cleveland OH, he died on the night of
Monday August 13, 1945. His death was reported in the August 16, 1945
edition of the Camden Courier-Post. Angelo
F. Derago was survived by his parents, brothers John, Robert, and
Anthony, and sisters Mrs. Mary Petruzzi and Mrs. Angeline Santore. A
Requiem High Mass was celebrated on August 18, 1945 at St. Joseph's
church at 29th and FederalStreets in Camden. |
