George
W.
GArner

GEORGE W. GARNER was a member of the Camden Fire department in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in New Jersey about 1901. He married Farabell Piper, who worked as a clerk at Camden's post office around 1924. The Garners lived with Farabell's parents, Charles and Farabell Piper, who had a variety shop at 2642 Federal Street in East Camden,  which sold candy and patent medicines. George W. Garner was serving with the United States Navy as late as 1924. He was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on April 4, 1928.

When the City Directory was compiled for 1929, he and wife Farabell were still living at 2642 Federal Street, with their infant daughter Joan. By the summer of 1933 they had moved to 235 Morse Street.

The Garners are not listed in the 1947 Camden City Directory. Farabell Garner was living in Willingboro NJ when she died in December of 1973. 

Camden Courier-Post - April 4, 1928

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Thomas Nicholas - John H. Lennox - Rollo Jones - William Harring - Clarence Madden
George B. Wade - William W. Patterson - George Hunt - David Ellis - George Saunders
Eli Hunt - William Van Pfefferle - William H. Toy - Leo J. Tomkins - Horace T. Molan
Laurence Boulton - George W. Garner - Felix E. Bendzyn - Harry H. Hess - Charles Jones
Ladder Company 1 - Engine Company 3
Engine Company 6 - Engine Company 7 - Engine Company 9
 27th Street - Arch Street - Broadway -  Clinton Street
Federal Street -  Ferry Avenue - York Street

10 HURT IN SERIES OF 7 ACCIDENTS 
One Car in Two Mishaps; All Occur Within an Hour

Ten persons were injured within an hour last night in seven accidents throughout Camden. 

The first accident occurred at Twenty-eighth and Thompson streets where a car driven by Mrs. Sarah A. Mole, 39, of 2903 Pleasant street, struck a five-year-old boy who ran from the sidewalk into the path of the automobile. 

The boy, John Smith, 5, of 2801 Pleasant street, suffered cuts on the right arm and leg. Mrs. Mole placed him in her car, then requested Charles Johnson, 32, of 2840 Thompson street, to drive the car to Cooper Hospital. Johnson agreed and with Julius Braxton, 18, a friend, of 2933 Thompson street, Mrs. Mole and the Smith boy started for the hospital. . 

At Twenty-seventh street and Saunders Avenue, the second accident occurred when Mrs. Mole's car, driven by Johnson, crashed with another car driven by H. Lem White, 43, of 730 Colford avenue, Collingswood. Johnson, Mrs. Mole and Braxton all were cut and bruised in the crash and were taken, with the Smith boy to the hospital by another motorist. 

Meanwhile at Baird avenue and Marlton pike, an automobile driven by Miss Virginia M. Brickner, 18, of 27 Cuthbert Road, Westmont, was overturned .in a collision with another car driven by George W. Garner, 31, of 235 Morse Street, a city fireman. Miss Brickner was treated at Cooper Hospital for shock and bruises. 

Two accidents occurred at Sixteenth street and Crescent Boulevard. In the first, Charles C. Markley, 30, of 1040 Sycamore avenue, Haddon Heights, attempted to stop his car when another machine cut In front of him. Markley's car overturned at the curbstone, and was wrecked, but Markley escaped injury. 

A Palmyra mother and her four year-old daughter were injured when the shaft of a bread wagon broke two windows in their car and showered them with glass, at the same intersection. 

The car was driven by Mrs. Dorothy Creager, 32, of 737 Garfield Avenue, Palmyra. She was cut, as was her daughter, Helen, 4. The driver of the wagon, Jackson Kircher, of 159 West Avenue, Westville, was not injured. 

William H. Anderson, 7, of 810 Chambers avenue, Gloucester, was treated last night at Cooper Hospital for a leg fracture suffered when struck by an automobile at Brown street, near Paul, Gloucester. Mrs. Anna Hammond, of 136 Snyder Avenue, Westville, took the boy to the hospital and reported to. Gloucester police.