Clarence Eugene Haines

CHIEF CARPENTER'S MATE CLARENCE EUGENE HAINES was born in Wisconsin in 1887. He joined the United States Navy as a boy, serving in the Spanish-American War and World War I. By 1915 he had married his first wife, Lollie, a native of Virginia. Son Edward F. was born in 1915, and daughter Laura came along in 1918. Clarence Haines was still in the Navy at the time of the 1920 census, stationed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard as a carpenter.

By April of  1930 Clarence Haines and family had moved to Pennsauken NJ. He had purchased a home at 2327 48th Street, and was working as a carpenter. By this time Lollie Haines had passed away. Clarence Haines remarried at some point after the census, and with his wife Blanche, had moved three doors to 2311 48th Street.  He had retired from active duty in the Navy after serving 30 years. He was a member of American Legion Pennsauken Post 125 and the Gross-Hollingshead VFW Post 1270 in Pennsauken.

Chief Haines was recalled to active duty in March of 1942. He was assigned to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois. On October 4, 1942 Chief Carpenter's Mate Clarence E. Haines died of pneumonia at the Great Lakes base. His death was reported in the October 6, 1942 edition of the Camden Courier-Post. Clarence Haines was survived by his wife Blanche, son Edward F. Haines, and daughter, Mrs. Laura Martin. He was brought home to new Jersey, and was buried at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly NJ on October 9, 1942.

October 6, 1949

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