Rollie
Waterhouse


ROLLIE WATERHOUSE was born Ralston J. Waterhiouse on June 24, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Waterhouse. His mother died before he was nine years of age. At the time of the 1920 Census the family lived at 511 Division Street in Camden.

His older sister Ellen had married Russell Sage later that year, anda daughter was born shortly thereafter. By 1930 the Sage household, at 436 Mechanic Street, included Rollie Waterhouse, his brother Alfonse, sister Thelma, and his father Charles and step-mother Waterhouse. Rollie Waterhouse was then 19, and working as a laborer at one of Camden's many shipyards.

On October 21, Rollie Waterhouse was convicted along with two accomplices of the May 15. 1936 robbery of James Law in Gloucester City, and sentenced to a long term at the reformatory at Annandale NJ by Judge Frank F. Neutze

After his release he came back to the area, and was living in Fairview in the late 1950s. 

Last a resident of Vincentown NJ, He passed away on December 26, 2001, survived by his wife Dorothy, niece Rose Sage Arenz, and nephew Jack Waterhouse.


Camden Courier-Post - October 22, 1936

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WATERHOUSE, RALSTON J.
On December 26, 2001, Ralston J. age 91 years. Beloved husband of Dorothy M. (nee Cutler) of Southampton, NJ. Survived by a niece Rose Arenz of Camden, a nephew Jack of Tampa, FL. Also survived by Lorraine Leise, Debra Dera and family, Barbara Berner and family all of Haddon Heights, NJ. Interment private at the convenience of the family. 
Arrangements by DUBOIS FUNERAL HOME, 700 White Horse Pike, Audubon.


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