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PRIVATE
FIRST CLASS JOHN S. McMURRAY JR. was born in Delaware in 1916 to John S.
and Mary McMurray. His parents were both emigrants from Northern
Ireland. The family was renting a home on Delaware River Road in Oldmans
Township in Salem County NJ by 1920. The elder McMurray was then working
as a laborer at a military ordnance depot. He was managing a grocery
store at the time of the 1930 census, when the McMurray family, which by
this time included younger brother Robert, lived in Camden NJ at 107
South 36th Street. John McMurray Jr. worked for the American Stores
Company, a chain grocery business, and later for the New York Shipbuilding Corporation prior to his
induction into the United States Army.
After basic training, John
McMurray Jr. was assigned to Company B of the 141st Infantry
Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. He was killed in action on
February 29, 1944 near Mount Caira, Italy.
After the war, John S. McMurray was brought home, and
after a memorial service at the funeral home at 804-06 North 27th Street
in Camden NJ was buried in Locustwood Memorial Park in Delaware Township
(present-day Cherry Hill) NJ, on September 30,
1948. He was survived by his father, who had moved to Pitman NJ, and his
brother, in 1948 serving as a lieutenant in the United States Army. |
