
Age 19. 4 Erie Place, Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA. Born (as Antonina Stanislava Pivorunas) on 4/08/1923, South Boston (Boston), MA. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Clerk, bakery shop (death certificate). Known generally by the surname "Powers." Also known by her birth surname Pivorunas. Attended the Grove with her unmarried friend Miss Muriel Rogers, age 21, of Boston, also dead. Reported in the 12/03/1942 Boston Herald as one of the last two bodies to be identified at Southern Mortuary, Boston, both on the following Wednesday (also victim Mrs. Teresa "Jeanne" Caradonna, age 42). Was single. Her parents on the following Thursday sought in vain at Boston Police Headquarters her two-piece black dress with a white collar. Observed by a Hub reporter: "She was a pretty girl, and she was the image of her dad" (The Boston Evening Globe, 12/03/1942). Was the youngest of eight Grove victims from the Boston "neighborhood" of Jamaica Plain (also Mrs. Lillian Daley, age 31, Miss Rita Duffley, age 28, Miss Josephine Gibbons, age 24, Mr. and Mrs. Louis, Jr., and Anna Meyer, ages 28 and 24, and Mr. and Mrs. John and Marion Steensen, ages 29 and 23, all patrons). Was one of 61 minors (then under age 21) taken in the disaster (of 490 total victims). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Alizas "Alex" and Monica "Minnie" (Grabavicius) Pivorunas, same address. Family surname was spelled "Pevorunas" (with an "e" on the first syllable) in era street listings, "Pivorunas" in all other sources (including her death certificate). Burial at Mt. Benedict Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. One of eight Grove fatalities interred at Mt. Benedict Cemetery (also patrons Francis Connell, age 21, Miss Margaret "Peggy" Graham, age 28, Miss Elizabeth "Betty" Kirwan, age 20, Mr. and Mrs. Donald and Dorothy "Frances" MacMillan, ages 30 and 26, and Mr. and Mrs. John and Christina Wessling, ages 34 and 29).