Age 23. 612 Upper Street, Danville, VA (local address: 410 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA). Born (as Catherine B. Poat) on 1/25/1919, in Richmond, VA. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Occupation: "at home" (death certificate). Was attending the club with her husband Lieut. John Abernethy, Jr., U.S. Army, age 28, also died. Her remains were identified on Sunday at Waterman's Funeral Home, in Boston. Was raised in Richmond, VA. Attended Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Married on 4/29/1939, in Edgerton (unincorporated), Brunswick Co., VA. Was living with her husband in Baltimore, MD, as of the 1940 federal census. The couple was survived by an 8-month-old daughter, Catherine. Surname (with her husband) was misspelled "Abernathy" (with an "a" on the third syllable) on the final official Committee on Public Safety, City of Boston, Cocoanut Grove master casualties list, published in November 1943 (her first name was also misspelled, "Katherine" with a "K"). With her husband was one of 56 married couples present where both spouses died, including 22 pairs with minors, resulting in 43 children (under the age of 21) being orphaned (plus one minor child orphaned by the loss of her single widowed father, victim Edward "Israel" Loman, age 44). With her husband were two of three casualties from Virginia (also Ensign Henry Cake, U.S.N.R., age 26, a patron in a separate party). Was the first alphabetically of 490 individuals to succumb in the great disaster. Divorced parents Mr. and Mrs. William F., Jr., and Elsie W. (Garthright) Poat. Stepmother Mrs. Jacque F. (Faulkner) Poat. Burial with Lieut. Abernethy at Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA. Middle name Poat.