Nicholas James Currie
Rank: Chief Carpenter's Mate, United States Navy
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Biography
Chief Carpenter’s Mate Nicholas J. Currie was born in 1886 in Pennsylvania. In 1905 he married Anna K. Risk of Reading, Pennsylvania. He served for over 20 years in the United States Navy. According to the Camden Courier-Post, he had made his home in Clementon, New Jersey, beginning about 1914. At the time of the 1930 census he was living at 164 West Atlantic Avenue in Clementon, working as a “chief inspector” in “government.” Along with wife Anna Currie, the Currie family at that time included daughter Celestine, then 19 and born in New Jersey, a nephew Charles W. Forman, then a 27-year-old bus driver, and father-in-law Emil K. Risk, then 84, who had been born in Germany.
Being a World War I veteran, Nicholas Currie was a member of Lower Camden County Post 2142, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Laurel Springs, New Jersey. Chief Currie was called back to active duty in November of 1942. He was stationed at a supply depot in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He took ill in mid-December of 1943 and was taken to the United States Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, where he died on April 13, 1944.
Nicholas Currie was survived by his wife Anna Katie Currie, his daughter Mrs. Celestine Miller of Wilmington, Delaware, and one grandchild. He is memorialized on the World War II War Memorial in Clementon, New Jersey.
Nicholas J. Currie Dies
Camden Courier-Post —
Nicholas J. Currie, 57, of 164 West Atlantic avenue, Clementon, chief carpenters mate, U. S. N., died yesterday in the U. S. Naval hospital at Philadelphia. Currie was recalled for service a year and a half ago after serving more than 20 years in the Navy. He was stationed at Mechanicsburg, Pa., in the supply depot. A resident of Clementon for 30 years, he was removed to the hospital about four months ago. He was a member of Lower Camden County Post No. 2142, VFW, of Laurel Springs and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Risk Currie; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Miller, of Wilmington, Del., and one grandchild. A military funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at a funeral home at 51 Park boulevard, Clementon.