Lolo
Boris A. Lolo
(1917 - 1942)

Age 25. 14 Tainter Street, Worcester, MA. Born 3/13/1917, in Worcester. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Inspector at Heald Machine Co. (boring and grinding machinery), of Worcester. Attended the afternoon College of the Holy Cross 55-to-12 football upset of Jesuit school rival Boston College held at Fenway Park with a coworker and friend, Joseph Ford, age 34, of Southbridge, MA, who also died. Another Heald coworker, Miss Monica Conlon, age 22, of Worcester, perished in a reported separate party. One of 60 "probable identifications" inventoried by Boston City Hospital on Sunday morning (8:00 a.m.) at Southern Mortuary (all male). His portrait first appeared among a 11/30/1942 Worcester Telegram montage of Worcester County area dead, then the caption became reversed with that of Worcester fire victim Charles Hildreth, Jr., age 22, in some Boston papers. Error was later corrected (proper image shown here). Was single. Was a graduate of Worcester Boys Trade School. Was a lifelong Worcester resident. Moderate build (WWII draft registration, October '40: 5' 8," 165 lbs.). One of 19 Grove casualties from the central Bay State city of Worcester, tied with Cambridge, MA, for the third-most deaths from any single municipality after Boston proper (147 victims) and Quincy, MA (24 dead). Parents Mrs. Alexandra A. (Vando), same address, and the late Mr. Naum A. Lolo (his parents were alternately known by the surname "Athanas"). Burial at Hope Cemetery, Worcester. One of seven club victims interred at Hope Cemetery. Middle name Arthur (middle initial was misreported as "H." on the official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master casualty list).

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