Age 19. 187 Melrose Street, Auburndale (Newton), MA. Born on 4/24/1923, Binghamton, NY. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Employed at Cedric G. Chase Photographic Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA (Waltham News-Tribune, 12/01/1942), or "at home" (death certificate). At the club with her fiancé Douglas Ober, age 24, also of Auburndale, dead. Her body was located the following Monday at Waterman's Funeral Home, Roxbury (Boston), MA. Binghamton Press, Binghamton, NY, 11/30/1942: "Word of the tentative identification of Miss Saphar was received today [Monday] by her grandparents..." Waltham News-Tribune, 12/01/1942: "By an ironic twist of fate, the girl met her death in a manner that her grandfather, Clarence E. Beech [sic]...had devoted his life to avert. He is the inventor of the Gamewell fire alarm system" (his actual surname spelling "Beach"). Had attended the Grove one month prior with her fiancé and friends including fire witness Irving Wickes, age 35 (Born 1/23/1907. Died 7/18/1969, age 62), of Dorchester (Boston), MA. Mr. Wickes recalled 18 years later in an open letter to the 11/27/1960 Boston Sunday Advertiser: "As the bartender stirred our drinks I turned to...Douglas Ober, and toasted him. 'Here's to your marriage,' I said, 'may you have a long life of happiness.'" Graduate of Brookline, MA, High School. With Mr. Ober were two of 14 victims from the city of Newton (including its dozen-plus "villages"), and two of three claimed from the Newton village of Auburndale (also patron Arthur Connelly, age 30, victim in a separate party). At age 19 was the youngest of 14 deceased females known to be engaged and the only known engaged teen (male or female) to perish. Separated parents Mr. Lewis J., of Buffalo, NY, and Mrs. Margaret E. (Beach) Saphar, of Walnut Hill (Medford), MA. Burial at Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, NY. Middle name Edith.

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