Oliver F. Starr Jr.
Rank: Private First Class, U.S. Army
Serial: 12010776
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died: February 1945
Buried at: Calvary Cemetery, Route 70, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Biography
Private First Class Oliver F. Starr Jr. of Audubon, New Jersey.
Private First Class Oliver F. Starr Jr. was killed in an accident while serving with an engineer unit in Italy in early 1945. He was born in New York in 1919, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver F. Starr Sr. of 139 Yale Road, Audubon, New Jersey. His father was an engineer and a member of the Society of Professional Engineers of New Jersey.
A 1937 graduate of Haddon Heights High School, Oliver Starr was one of six members of that class to lose their lives while serving in the United States armed forces during World War II. His classmates who also died in service were Edgar Crouthamel, Oscar Kline, William Raws, Warren Stafford Jr., and William Tait. Another member of the Class of 1939, Carlton R. Rouh, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
After high school, Oliver Starr was employed as a salesman in Philadelphia before enlisting in the United States Army on June 16, 1941, at Camden, New Jersey. He went overseas in October of 1942 and participated in campaigns in North Africa and Italy. Oliver F. Starr was 25 at the time of his death. Besides his parents, he was survived by his twin sister Mary and another sister, Mrs. Janice McKay. His father passed away on October 18, 1949.
Photos
Haddon Heights High School Class of 1937 yearbook entry for Oliver F. Starr Jr. (known to friends as “Ollie”); his grave marker; and the Audubon World War II memorial.