Age 28. 12 Hancock Street, Salem, MA. Born (as Beatrice Emma Dufour) on 4/22/1914, in Salem. Died on 11/29/1942 (Sunday), suffocation and asphyxiation by smoke (death certificate). Machine cleaner, Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. (fluorescent lamps), of Danvers, MA. In a foursome with companion Carlton Riley, age 47, dead, also H. Roland Sousa, age 45 (Born 11/02/1897. Died 9/13/1982, age 84. Last residence Salem), both of Salem, and James "Red" Robinson, age 46 (Born 10/12/1896. Died 4/28/1964, Rutland, MA, age 67), of Beverly, MA, latter two survived. Group arrived at the club about quarter to ten, were seated at a table in the cellar Melody Lounge. Mr. Sousa informed Boston Police that when fire broke the party went up the stairs and tried to escape in darkness through the main dining room, but became separated. Her unidentified body at Watson Funeral Home, Cambridge, MA, was detailed in The Boston Post, 11/30/1942: "About 25 years old, medium to tall and of slender build with brown and gray mixed hair, wearing glasses and a red velveteen dress and a double strand of pearls. She also wore...a gold chain and crucifix." One of the last three fire victims removed to Cambridge to be identified, all on early Monday (also Mrs. Josephine Donovan, age 33, a patron, and Grove service cashier Miss Katherine "Kate" Swett, age 67). Survived by a daughter Marie, age 5. Husband Pvt. Charles J. Conway, U.S. Army MP, stationed at Nantucket, MA, was not present. Married in 1937. Reported on December 8 that her husband was to seek custody of the daughter, who lived with relatives in Beverly. A brother, Norman Dufour (not present), claimed in Essex County Probate Court on 1/19/1943 that the girl's father was not fit to have custody: "He testified that Conway had never visited the child since he became estranged from his wife in 1938" (The Boston Herald, 1/20/1943). Father eventually did gain custody, brought his daughter and her stepmother to rural Paxton, MA (home described by the daughter in a private 2024 interview as "a tarpaper shack"). Daughter, as Mary Conway (never married), later of Worcester, compiled an impressive collection of historic material about both the Grove and her mother. Late parents Mr. and Mrs. Leopold and Marie (LaFleur) Dufour. Burial in the family lot at St. Mary's Cemetery, Salem. Middle name Dufour.

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