Francis J. Conlen III
Rank: Private, U.S. Army
Serial: 32267065
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Buried at: New St. Mary’s Cemetery, 515 West Browning Road, Bellmawr, New Jersey
Biography
Private Francis J. Conlen III.
Private Francis J. Conlen III was born in New Jersey on April 3, 1910, to Frank J. and Mary W. Conlen. He was the second of four children, coming after Richard and before Mary and Paul. His father was an undertaker who operated his own business. At the time of the 1920 census, the Conlen family owned a home at 31 Tenth Avenue in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. By the 1930 census the family had moved to 114 West Atlantic Avenue in Haddon Heights. By the early 1940s the Conlens had moved to neighboring Audubon, where Frank J. Conlen Jr. operated a funeral home at the White Horse Pike and Harvard Road. Francis J. Conlen III graduated from high school and attended undertakers’ and embalmers’ school for a year before being called into military service.
Private Francis J. Conlen III was inducted into the Army in May of 1942 and was stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He was killed in a car accident near Mt. Holly, New Jersey, on November 6, 1942. He suffered a skull fracture when the automobile in which he was a passenger crashed into a locomotive at a railroad crossing on Route 38 on the outskirts of Mt. Holly. He was 31 years old. He was buried at New St. Mary’s Cemetery in Bellmawr, New Jersey, on November 10, 1942.
Private Conlen was survived by his parents; his brothers Richard, then serving in the Army Air Forces, and Paul of Audubon; and his sister, Mrs. Mary Dunn of Laurel Springs, New Jersey.
Pvt. Francis Conlen Dies After Accident
Camden Courier-Post —
Pvt. Francis J. Conlen, 31, of Fort Dix, son of Frank Conlen, Audubon undertaker, died yesterday in Burlington County Hospital from injuries suffered in an automobile accident early Wednesday. Pvt. Conlen, who entered the service in June, suffered a skull fracture when the car in which he was a passenger crashed into a locomotive on a crossing of Route 38, on the outskirts of Mt. Holly. Two other soldier passengers and the driver, Sergt. Robert Bowers, escaped serious hurts. The men were returning to camp after a short leave, it was learned.
Pvt. Conlen’s home was at Harvard road and White Horse pike. He is survived also by his mother; two brothers, Richard, now in the Army air force, and Paul, also of Audubon, and a sister, Mrs. John Dunn, of Laurel Springs.
Pvt. Francis J. Conlen, 3D
Camden Courier-Post —
Whose funeral will be held tomorrow at 9 a.m. from the home of his parents, White Horse pike and Harvard avenue, Audubon, with a Solemn Requiem Mass at 10 o’clock at the church of St. Rose of Lima, Haddon Heights. Burial will be in New St. Mary’s cemetery.
Private Conlen, who died Friday in Burlington County hospital, Mt. Holly, was 31 and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Conlen. He died of injuries received when an automobile in which he was a passenger was in collision with a train. He had been in the Army since May. He had been associated with his father in the undertaking business.
Photos
Advertisements for the Conlen Funeral Home at White Horse Pike and Harvard Road, Audubon; and the Audubon World War II memorial.