Steven Michael Goldsboro

Corporal Steven Michael Goldsboro was born in Camden, NJ on February 16, 1948 to Georgia and Orville Goldsboro Jr. He was one of thirteen children. The family lived at 717 Ringgold Street in Camden, which was the home of his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Pauline Goldsboro.

Steven Goldsboro enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in the summer of 1964 after graduating from Pyne Point Junior High School in North Camden.

Corporal Goldsboro shipped out for Vietnam in August of 1966. He trained as a rifleman and was assigned to Company M, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.

While taking part in Operation Desoto, Corporal Goldsboro was killed in action by small arms fire on February 8, 1967 near the hamlet of Vinh Minh, Duc Pho district, Quang Ngai Province. Also killed in that action was Private First Class Peter Michael Sullivan.

Corporal Goldsboro was brought home and buried at New Camden Cemetery, northeast corner of Mount Ephraim Avenue and Ferry Avenue, Camden, NJ. He was survived by his parents, of 828 North 6th Street in North Camden, and eleven siblings.

Steven Michael Goldsboro is honored on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Panel 15E, Line 009.

I was born at 707 Ringgold Street and Stevie at 717 Ringgold Street in Camden, NJ. When I was around 3 years old my family moved to Cherry Street and Stevie moved with his grandmother across the street from our house. We grew up together and played all day every day until junior high school. In 1965 I joined the USAF and a year later he the USMC. My mom told me that he came home from a tour in Vietnam and told her that he had to return. He thought though that this time he wouldn’t make it out of there alive. Oh Stevie, we think of you often and we miss you, friend. I believe that we will all be together again someday, for Jesus said “He who believeth in me shall never die but have everlasting life.” May God bless your soul.

— William Blakey, friend and neighbor — February 16, 2007