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STAFF SERGEANT WARREN H.
PATTERSON was born on March 2, 1921 in Camden NJ to Mathias and Clara
Patterson. The Patterson family had come to Camden after 1916, and lived
at 431 North 38th Street, in the East Camden section of the city. The
elder Patterson worked as a clerk in a bank. Warren Patterson was a 1939
graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, and was attending the
Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania when he was
drafted. He had also been working at a bank in Philadelphia, the
Fidelity Philadelphia Trust Company.
Inducted into the Army in
November of 1942, Warren Patterson trained at Camp Campbell KY and Camp
Arthur TX, and went overseas on September 20, 1944. Staff Sergeant
Patterson died of wounds received in combat on April 22, 1945 near
Baldern Germany.
After the
war Warren Patterson was returned to the United States, and he was buried at
Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly NJ on August 16, 1948. He was
survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence Patterson, of Pennsauken NJ, his son
William Patterson, His mother Mrs. Clara Patterson, of Palmyra NJ, and
his older brother, Mathias Paterson Jr. also of Palmyra. |
