Age 29. 14 Melvin Avenue (apartments) #6, Brighton (Boston), MA. Born 3/31/1913, in Boston. Died on 12/02/1942 (Wednesday), at 4:45 a.m., at Boston City Hospital, bronchitis and pneumonia, inhalation of smoke (death certificate). Secretary-stenographer, U.S. government (death certificate). Known informally as "Bea." Companion (or companions) at the club not reported. One of three Grove victims (all female) to succumb at City Hospital on the following Wednesday, the fourth day post-blaze (also patrons Mrs. Doris Ford, age 39, and Miss Virginia McLaughlin, age 19). Lived at the same apartment building (three units apart) as fire survivors Pvt. Max Rice, U.S. Army, age 27 (Born 3/31/1915. Died on 9/27/1982, age 67), and his wife Beatrice, age 23 (Born 9/25/1919. Died as Beatrice A. Levinson on 10/07/2001, age 82), address 14 Melvin Avenue #9, Brighton (other connection if any unknown). Was raised in Boston. Was formerly a bookkeeper, Rosen & Co., Inc. (cotton goods), of Boston (era street listings). Was single. One of 81 Grove fire victims (of 490 total) recorded on their death certificates as having expired after the actual fire date of November 28 (plus singer Ethel Bauer, age 32, who died on 12/01/1942, but was misrepresented as passing on "November 28"). Parents Mrs. Sadie (Goldstein), same address, and the late Mr. Benjamin Lebowitz. Her father died in 1940. Burial at Mount Lebanon (Beth El) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. One of 23 Grove casualties interred at Mount Lebanon collective Jewish cemeteries, the third-most after connected Mount or "Old" Calvary and New Calvary cemeteries (30 burials combined), followed by St. Joseph's Cemetery (24 burials), both also in Boston. In memoriam notice from her family published four years later in The Boston Herald, 12/02/1946: "In loving memory of our darling 'Bea'...To know her was to love her - for she made life beautiful. Mother, sister and brothers."

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