Selvia Marino
T/4 in 406th Engineer Combat Co
Military occupational specialty: 50 (carpenter, general)
ASN#32754106
Born 1916 in NJ, Died 1985
Other residence(s): Hartford, NJ; Mt. Laurel, NJ; Maple Shade, NJ; Clara, MS
United States Army, European Theatre of Operations
Selvia Marino was born on July 15, 1916 in Hartford, NJ, the eighth of 16 children. His father was a farmer and laborer, and later a factory janitor; both of his parents had been born in Rome, Italy.
Sometime after he graduated from high school, and before 1940, Selvia married Mississippi native Marion Utsey. In April of 1940, when the census taker came around, Selvia was working as a laborer at a golf course and Marion was a forelady in a steam laundry. The couple had bought a house in Mt. Laurel, NJ.
Selvia registered for the draft on October 16, 1940; by then he was working for S. Roger Gale, the proprietor of a steam laundry in Moorestown, NJ. (This is likely the same laundry that employed Marion.) He enlisted on March 13, 1943 and was eventually assigned to the 406th Engineer Combat Company. He saw service in Europe with the unit and was discharged on October 26, 1945 with the rank of T/4.
In 1950 he and Marion were living with his parents in Maple Shade, NJ; she was working as a machine sewer in a dress factory and he was unemployed and looking for work. By 1960, they were back in Mt. Laurel. Little else is known of his life or work.
The couple eventually moved to Clara, MS (possibly when they retired?). Marion died there in 1982, and Selvia on November 6, 1985. The couple is buried at Corinth Cemetery in Wayne County, MS.
Sources
1930 census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/22450371:6224?tid=&pid=&queryid=d59ae824-cd9e-4cb5-8a25-28e349184805&_phsrc=FCW9&_phstart=successSource
1940 census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/132952359:2442?tid=&pid=&queryid=e4e44dbf-7266-459a-8a6d-2f6d473435f4&_phsrc=FCW13&_phstart=successSource
1940 draft card
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/301288806:2238?tid=&pid=&queryid=f4f0e73a-f0fe-4c96-bd9c-4c248ff90ff2&_phsrc=FCW7&_phstart=successSource
1950 census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/164245054:62308?tid=&pid=&queryid=d4145066-cbc8-44da-a58a-d0159bd3043e&_phsrc=FCW15&_phstart=successSource
1985 death notice in the Courier-Post (Camden NJ)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/182512226/?match=1&terms=selvia%20marino
1985 VA death record
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10213185:2441?ssrc=pt&tid=31459283&pid=110194805350
1985 Find a Grave record
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40346333/selvia-marino