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ALMA
FLORENCE GUERARD was born in New York City NY in 1920 to Joseph Geurard and
Florence Kemp Guerard. Her father was French-Canadian, and worked as a
musician. When Alma Guerard was born the family, which included
mother-in-law Lillian Kemp, lived at 1417 Lexington Avenue in New York
City. By the time of the
1930 census Alma Guerard and her grandmother were living at 1720 43rd
Street in Pennsauken NJ, with Alma Guerard’s maternal aunts, Ruth and
Greta Kemp, who both worked as secretaries for a local tool
manufacturing business.
Alma Guerard enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps. She died on August 11, 1945. Private First Class Guerard was
survived by her Aunt Ruth, of the 43rd Street Address. She was buried
with military honors at the Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira NY.
Alma Guerard is memorialized on the monument at the Delaware
Gardens Fire Company in Pennsauken NJ. |
