Frank Harry Bushey
Private
125th Transportation Company
11th Transportation Battalion
Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Born: March 7, 1946
Died: April 10, 1968
Buried at: Locustwood Memorial Park
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Panel 49E, Line 8
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Frank Harry Bushey
Introduction
Private Frank Harry Bushey was born on March 7th, 1946 to Francis and Anna Bushey in Camden, New Jersey. His father is listed as a fireman in Camden’s 1947 City Directory, however he was not a member of the Fire Department. The fireman designation more than likely indicates that he was a boiler operator. The family lived at 2740 River Road in the heart of Camden’s Cramer Hill section. An only child, Frank Harry Bushey was a 1964 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, and was a member of the varsity baseball team.
Frank Bushey went into the Army in December of 1965. As a member of the Army, Private Bushey’s MOS was 56A10, supply handler.
Private Bushey served our country for two years. He arrived in Vietnam on December 13, 1966. On April 10th, 1968, Private Bushey died as a result of blood poisoning from non-combat related wounds received on April 7, at Binh Hoa, South Vietnam. He was 22 years old and was not married. His body was recovered and returned to the United States.
Frank Bushey: 1964 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook photo (left) and Army portrait (right)
Frank Bushey — 1964 Woodrow Wilson High School Yearbook Entry
Philadelphia Inquirer — April 18, 1968
Army PFC Frank H. Bushey, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bushey, of 2740 River Avenue, Camden. Pfc Bushey was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden. He entered the Army in December, 1965, and left for Vietnam a year later. During a leave to visit his parents last September, Pfc. Bushey sought a “compassionate reassignment” as an only child, but was refused.
He died April 10 of blood poisoning resulting from wounds received April 7. The telegram did not say how the wounds were incurred. The soldier had written his parents in his last letter that he was then serving as a guard in Saigon.
Camden Courier-Post — April 23, 1968
BUSHEY
Private in the U.S. Army, died on April 10, 1968, in Vietnam. Frank H., son of Frank and Mildred (nee Henderson) of 2740 River Ave., Camden, N.J., age 22 years. Relatives and friends of the family and members of the Hope Memorial Baptist Church of Camden are invited to attend the funeral services on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Gustav Roedel & Son Funeral Home, 804-06 N. 27th St., Camden, N.J. Interment at Locustwood Memorial Park, Cherry Hill. Contributions may be sent to the Hope Memorial Baptist Church Building Fund, 952 N. 34th St., Camden, N.J. Friends may call Tuesday evening.
Remembered by Friends
I Knew Frankie from Cramer Hill
You were younger, Frankie, but I knew you growing up in Cramer Hill; I was very sorry to hear of your death; it’s Veteran’s Day 2002, and I was thinking of you and the other boys that died who lived in Camden. You are in my prayers.
The Rev. Dr. Charles A. Bevan, Jr.
Monday, November 11, 2002
He graduated in ’64 but I have that yearbook too. His family lived a few blocks from me in the Cramer Hill section of town. A really tragic story. He was an only child and his parents were absolutely devastated by his death in Viet Nam.
…you may be able to get some information about them from Hope Memorial Baptist Church. The church is located at 36th and Hayes. The Busheys were very active in that church, particularly youth groups. That is how I got to know them. I lost touch with them after 1973 when I moved out of the area.
Tom Burke
July 25, 2005