Seymour Tarken
Private Seymour Tarken, Serial: 32069969, was born in the spring of 1916 to Samuel and Goldie Tarken, in Pennsylvania. In 1920 the family lived at 2514 2nd Street in Philadelphia, where the father worked as a butcher. The Tarken family later moved to Camden NJ, and settled at 2365 Baird Boulevard.
Seymour Tarken was drafted on May 19, 1941 in New Jersey. By February of 1942, he had been assigned to Fort Jackson SC, working with radios. He died at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, of causes not related to combat. He was survived by his parents and his brother, Martin Tarken, who served with the Medical Corps at Fort Lee, VA.
Martin Tarken, of 2365 Baird Blvd, is with the Medical Corps at Fort Lee, VA… His brother Seymour is doing radio work with the Army at Fort Jackson…
— East Camden News, February 19, 1942, “Town Crier” column
Selectee Mothers Form County Club
Camden Courier-Post —
Audubon Woman Chosen as Second to Go on Trip to See Soldier Son
A permanent organization “for the duration” to provide the means for visits of mothers to their sons at distant army camps was effected in Camden last night.
The Selectees’ Mothers Club of Camden county organized in the Hotel Walt Whitman with Mrs. Mae Ford, 206 Cooper street, originator of the idea, as president. The plan is for mother-members to pay dues of 25 cents a week, and this money, added to contributions and revenues from social affairs, is used to send mothers for visits to their inducted sons.
The second mother, Mrs. Alice Harris, of 235 Chestnut street, Audubon, was chosen by lot last night. She will visit her son, Clinton, a private in Battery B, 22nd Coast Artillery, Camp Langdon, New Castle, N. H. Mrs. Nellie Dix, of 205 Linderman avenue, Pennsauken, who visited her son at Fort Bragg, N. C., last week, related her camp experience to the mothers. She returned home on Monday.
Officers in addition to Mrs. Ford are Mrs. Ethel Down, 217 North Forty-second streets, Pennsauken, vice president; Mrs. Margaret McSwiggan, 2823 Carman street, recording secretary; Mrs. Ada Kuhs, 4529 Remington avenue, Pennsauken, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Bertha Hunsberger, 932 Newton avenue, treasurer. Mrs. Goldie Turkin, 2365 Kaighn avenue, was appointed as an “Investigation Committee of One.”
Donation of $10 by the Ladies of Coll-Fair Unit, Bundles for Britain, was announced. Offers of meeting space and rooms for social affairs were made by Townsend C. Young Post No. 362, V. F. W., Gloucester; Star of Promise Lodge No. 14, Gloucester, and Post No. 324, V. F. W., Runnemede.