George William Keilman

Private • U.S. Army • Serial 32957944

Company E, 377th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division

Entered service from New Jersey • Died November 26, 1944

Buried at Lakeview Memorial Park, Route 130, Cinnaminson, New Jersey

Awards: Purple Heart

Private George William Keilman was born in New Jersey on June 8, 1925, to George and Margaret Keilman. His father worked as a draftsman in a shipyard. In 1930 the family owned a home at 130 Pennsylvania Road in Brooklawn, NJ. In 1933 the elder Keilman served as Police Recorder in Brooklawn.

Private George Keilman graduated high school prior to being drafted. He was inducted into the United States Army on September 14, 1943, at Camden, NJ. A childhood friend, David Reich, believed he was killed at Omaha Beach in June of 1944. This, however, was not the case. Private Keilman was killed on November 26, 1944, as the 95th Division pushed toward the Saar River.

George William Keilman was brought home and buried at Lakeview Memorial Park in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, in 1949.

Some towns don't have a police recorder, some have one but Brooklawn is different. It has two!

George B.F. Keilman recently was elected recorder by council upon recommendation of Mayor N.C. Courtney. Squire Frank N. Richardson, who was removed as recorder in January, however, still refuses to quit. They are both signing their names as recorder.

Richardson fined Earl A. Winch, Oaklyn, arrested by Capt. James Garrity, Bellmawr police, $1 and $1.50 costs, following an accident. Dr. Norman S. Newkirk, Salem, was the complainant. Richardson rendered a receipt signed as “recorder.”

Councilman David Reich attended the hearing and informed the parties involved that Richardson was not recorder. He took Winch to Keilman to have a complaint made against Richardson but Winch later refused.

Richardson claims he is recorder until 1935 and will not vacate the office. Borough officials are attempting to have a test case to decide whether the borough or Richardson is right.