Raymond S. Carty
Private, U.S. Army
32264749
66th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
4th Armored Division
Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: July 28, 1944
Buried at: Section 70, Lot 6, Grave 3, Trace 3
Berlin Cemetery
White Horse Pike
Berlin NJ
Awards: Purple Heart
Private Raymond S. Carty
Introduction
Private Raymond S. Carty was born in Turnersville NJ to Owen G. and Pearl Carty. The couple separated almost at once, and Owen Carty immediately remarried, eventually settling in Pleasantville NJ. At the time of the 1930 Census, Raymond Carty was living with his mother and sisters Ruth and Lillian on Berlin Road in Gibbsboro NJ, where his mother worked as a housekeeper for John Hendrickson, a varnish maker at the paint works in Gibbsboro. His mother later re-married to a man named Markart. Raymond Carty had lived at 114 Barrett Avenue in Magnolia NJ. Prior to being inducted into the United States Army on April 7, 1942, he worked for the Kieckhefer Container Company in the Delair section of Pennsauken NJ. He was assigned to a field artillery unit in December of 1943.
Raymond Carty was killed in action in France on July 28, 1944, at the age of 29. He was survived by his parents, Owen G. Carty and Mrs. Pearl S. Markart; sisters Mrs. Florence Carty Schaeffer, Mrs. Lillian Carty Payne, and Mrs. Ruth Carty Stuhl; step-brother Edward Markart; and step-sister Frances Markart. The death of Raymond Carty was reported in the August 12, 1944 edition of the Camden Courier-Post.
Raymond Carty was brought home to New Jersey in the spring of 1948. He was buried at Berlin Cemetery in Berlin NJ on May 7, 1948.
Pvt. R. S. Carty Funeral Friday
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Pvt. Raymond S. Carty, of Evesham and Barrett avenues, Magnolia, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in a funeral home at 51 Park boulevard, Clementon, where friends may call tomorrow night, and where a guard of honor will be posted by Edwin I. Johnson post 370, American Legion.
Military honors at the burial in Berlin cemetery will be provided by Ft. Dix buglers and a firing squad.
Born in Turnersville, Private Carty attended West Berlin school and worked for Kieckhefer Container Co., Delair, prior to entering the service April 7, 1942, at Ft. Dix. He was a member of the 66th Battalion, 4th Armored Division, carried the Purple Heart and was killed in action at St. Lo, France, July 28, 1944, at the age of 29 years.
Surviving are his father, Owen G., and mother, Mrs. Pearl Carty Markart; three sisters, Mrs. Florence Schaeffer, Mrs. Lillian Payne, both of Narberth, Pa., Mrs. Ruth Stuhl, of Camden; a step-brother, Edward Markart, and a step-sister, Frances Markart, both of Magnolia.