Albert L. Parker
Rank: Private, U.S. Marine Corps
Serial: 803630
Unit: 2nd Marine Division
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Buried at: Evergreen Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey
Biography
Private Albert L. Parker was born in 1924 in Camden, New Jersey. He was the son of Edward and Olivia Giberson Parker. His early years were spent in Camden, as the Parker family lived with the maternal grandparents, Albert and Nellie Giberson, at 463 Liberty Street. The family later moved to Gloucester City, New Jersey, where Albert Parker attended Gloucester High School. He joined the Marines on February 22, 1943 after his high school graduation. He went overseas the following May.
Albert Parker was killed in action during the assault on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, November 20–23, 1943. He was 19 at the time of his death. He was survived by his father, Mr. Edward L. Parker, of 168 South Burlington Street, Gloucester City; two sisters, Miss Olivia Parker and Mrs. Catherine Johnson; a brother, Edward Parker, who had been recently honorably discharged from the Army; and his grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Norris, of Gloucester Heights, Gloucester City. Albert Parker was brought home aboard the USAT Joseph V. Connolly, arriving October 27, 1947. He was buried on November 1, 1947 at Evergreen Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey.
Plan Military Service For Pvt. A. L. Parker
Military services will be held for Pvt. Albert L. Parker, 19, USMC, Saturday in Evergreen cemetery. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m. in the Parker funeral home, 523 Cumberland street, Camden. The Rev. Alexander P. Kearney, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Gloucester, will officiate.
The body of Private Parker was the first of Gloucester City’s residents killed in World War II to be returned. He was killed in action at Tarawa, Nov. 20-23, 1943, after his discharge in the Marines Feb. 22, 1943, after graduating from Gloucester high school.
A guard of honor, composed of members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion in uniform will be at the funeral home Friday night.
Comdr. A. Captain of Townsend C. Young post 3620, VFW, will read a prayer over the body at the cemetery. A squad from the American Legion members of the VFW post and Gloucester post 135, American Legion, will fire over the grave.
Surviving are his father, Edward; two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Johnson, Gloucester city, and Miss Arthella Parker, Vineland; and a brother, Edward Jr., Westville Grove.