Mario A. Marchione
Rank: Sergeant, U.S. Army
Serial Number: 32205164
Unit: 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Sergeant Mario A. Marchione was born in 1919, the fifth child of Ralph and Concetta Marchione. His father had emigrated from Italy in 1906. In 1930 the family was renting a home at 3939 Marlton Avenue in Pennsauken, NJ, where his father operated a bakery. Mario Marchione had completed four years of high school and was married when he was inducted into the Army on January 27, 1942, at Fort Dix, NJ.
A few months after he departed for the Army, the horse his father kept in the backyard of the bakery got loose and played havoc in traffic, making the front page of the Camden Courier-Post on May 27, 1942.
Sergeant Mario Marchione was killed in action in the fighting in Normandy on July 31, 1944, during the advance on Villedieu-les-Poeles. He was survived by his parents, brothers John and Gabriel, sisters Antoinette, Josephine, Margaret, and Claire, and a niece, Concetta, daughter of his brother John and his wife Mary.
3 Hurt in Boulevard Accident Caused by Runaway Bakery Horse
Camden Courier-Post —
Animal Rams Car Stopped for Traffic Light; Passengers in Two Other Automobiles Injured in Crash
A runaway horse was the indirect cause of three persons being slightly injured last night at Admiral Wilson boulevard and Baird avenue. According to Detective Thomas Murphy, the horse, which had broken loose from a tether in the yard of Ralph Marchione, operator of a bakery at 3939 Marlton pike, rammed into the rear of an automobile driven by Jack Silverman, of 506 Beideman avenue. Silverman was stopped on Boulevard avenue for the traffic light at the intersection.
Charles Bleyer, 57, of 905 Atlantic avenue, Atlantic City, who was driving north on the boulevard when he saw the runaway horse, stopped and got out to lead the horse from the highway. He left Mrs. Lillian McNamara, 44, of 419 Trenton avenue, in his car when he got out. Another automobile, driven by Harold B. Ash, of 982 North Twenty-third street, crashed into the rear of Bleyer’s car, police said.
Mrs. McNamara, Ash and John F. Deane, 20, of 100 South Sixth street, a passenger in Ash’s car, suffered lacerations. Ash and Mrs. McNamara were treated at Cooper Hospital for minor cuts, while Deane was treated by his physician.
The Marchione Bakery
The Marchione family bakery at 3939 Marlton Avenue, Pennsauken, NJ.