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PRIVATE LOUIS J. POMPONIO
was born Luigi Pomponio in San Biagio Saracinisco, Frosinone, Italy in
September 1921. He was the son of
Emilio
Pomponio and his wife, the former
Rosa
Maria Grazia Valenti . He emigrated with his parents to America in
1923. By 1930 Emilio Pomponio was working as a musician in Philadelphia,
were the family lived at 521 Montrose Street in South Philadelphia. By
1930 his brother Daniel and sister Rosella had been born, another
sister, Mary had died as a young child. The Pomponio family moved to
Taunton Avenue in Berlin NJ at some point in the 1930s. He attended
Camden County Vocational School
on Browning Road in
Pennsauken NJ, and graduated in 1939. Louis Pomponio
was an amateur radio operator, and parlayed his hobby into a job at RCA-Victor
in Camden NJ before being inducted into the Army in 1943.
Private
Pomponio received his initial training at Fort Dix NJ and Fort Blanding
FL. The Army assigned him to a Signal Corps unit for further training in
mid-December 1943 at Camp Crowder MO. He had been there for six weeks
when he was taken ill and passed away on February 17, 1943. He was survived by his
parents, Mr. & Mrs.
Emilio
Pomponio of Berlin NJ, and his brother and sister. His death
was reported in the February 21 and February 22, 1944 evening editions
of the Camden Courier-Post.
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