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PRIVATE JOSEPH C. KOBBY
was born Joseph C. Koberstine, on June 10, 1920 in Gloucester City NJ.
He attended Gloucester High School. Joseph Kobby enlisted in the United
States Marine Corps in December of 1941, after the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Private Kobby was killed while
serving with the 1st Marine Division during the fighting at Cape
Gloucester, New Britain on January 6, 1944.
He was survived by his parents, Charles and Ava Kobersteine,
of 204 Nicholson Road, in the Gloucester Heights section of Gloucester
City NJ.
Joseph Kobby was brought
home to New Jerey after the war. He ws buried at beverly Cemetery in
Beverly NJ on February 18, 1949. |
