Age 32. 115 Fairway Drive, West Newton (Newton), MA. Born on 11/10/1910, Brooklyn, NY. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Known as "Kay." Husband John "Rollie," age 43, also died. Couple was reported in the Fitchburg Sentinel, Fitchburg, MA, 11/30/1942, as attached to a New Lounge party of eleven (mostly unnamed, count not confirmed) to welcome her husband's younger brother Francis "Frank," age 34 (Born 10/23/1908. Died 3/02/1972, age 63. Last residence Lancaster, MA), a private in the U.S. Army, home on furlough from the Army Air Corps in Mississippi. Reported that eight perished (no victims besides the McCanns were named). Pvt. McCann escaped into a "narrow hallway" then through a window with his fiancée, Miss Ethel Mills, age 27 (Born 6/30/1915. Died as Ethel G. McCann on 1/10/1982, age 66. Last residence East Falmouth, MA), both survived. "Looking back for his brother and sister-in-law...he said that there was a 'mob' of people at the window and that was the last he saw of them" (Leominster Daily Enterprise, Leominster, MA, 11/30/1942). Her remains were located at Southern Mortuary in Boston. "An ankle bracelet...led to the identification of her body..." (Fitchburg Sentinel, 11/30/1942). Misreported in the 11/30/1942 Leominster Daily Enterprise as taken from the club ruins at 5 p.m. on Sunday (possibly at 5 a.m., or likely earlier; the time stated might be the time of her morgue identification). Was living with her family in Rockville Centre (Hempstead), L.I., NY (at age 9), as of the 1920 federal census. The West Newton address above (shown on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety list of casualties) was that of her parents. Her husband lodged in Leominster, MA, during the work week. First name was alternately spelled "Catherine" with a "C" (birth certificate, era street listings, 1930 and '40 federal census, some news accounts) and "Katherine" with a "K" ('20 federal census, other news accounts, her death certificate, the Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties). Parents Mr. and Mrs. George J. and Bernice (Vasquez) Smith, same address. Burial with her husband (name spelled "Catherine" on their stone) at Mount Hope Cemetery, Mattapan (Boston), MA.

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