
Age 33. 38 Sargent Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born 10/29/1909, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Billing clerk, Walworth Co. (pipe fittings, valves and tools), Boston. Companion (or companions) at the club unknown. Was known alternately by her first name Agnes (1930 federal census, some era street listings, death certificate) and middle name Patricia (1940 federal census, '42 street listings, published death notices). Was divorced, former husband Richard M. Hill, married in 1930, in Milford, NH. Ex-husband was in the rug repair business (era street listings). Survived by children Patricia, age 11, and David, age 5. Was living (divorced) with her widowed mother and children in Dorchester as of the 1940 federal census. Retained her married surname "Hill" after legal separation (surname shown on her death certificate and on the official final Boston Committee on Public Safety list of Grove fatalities). One of 11 fire victims (of 489 listed) with no immediate disposition of remains recorded on the above master list of casualties, published in November 1943 (one fatality was missing, patron Wilbur Meserve, age 25, error was apparently clerical in nature). Was one of 228 victims showing "carbon monoxide poisoning" as the primary cause of death on their death certificates, the same count (exact) as those recorded dead from "burns" (eight more were listed with both causes, while an additional 26 gave other origins or stated simply "trapped in burning building"). Parents Mrs. Agnes H. (McCarthy), same address, and the late Mr. David A. Rourke. Burial at St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. One of 24 deceased interred at the above St. Joseph's Cemetery, the second-greatest final resting grounds for all Grove victims after the connected Mount or "Old" Calvary and New Calvary cemeteries, also in Boston, latter the combined site of 30 burials.