Age 25. 479 Essex Street, Lynn, MA. Born on 1/07/1917, in Lynn. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Part-time weekend Grove waiter. Also a punch presser, Eastern Tool & Stamping Co., Saugus, MA. Was married, wife former Marie Alice Allard, age 22 (surname Duffy by a previous marriage. Born 2/01/1920, in Canada. Died as Marie A. Brokop on 2/12/2002, age 82). Wife was not present. "Suffering from shock and hysteria since she learned her husband was one of the victims...Mrs. Alice...Roumeliotis was removed to Lynn Hospital yesterday [Monday] for treatment" (Daily Evening Item, Lynn, 12/01/1942). The latter collapsed at the door of St. Mary's Church in Lynn and was unable to attend Wednesday funeral services for her victim husband. Widow filed $10,000 suit against New Cocoanut Grove, Inc., in Essex Superior Court on 4/08/1943, claiming club owners were negligent in allowing her husband to work when the place was "unsafe and dangerous" (The Boston Herald, 4/09/1943). Was a graduate of Lynn Classical High School. Married on 5/05/1939, in Lynn. Survived by infant daughters Shirley Ann, age 2, and Joan Marie, age 14 months. First name was variously spelled "Christes" (marriage certificate, own signature on WWII draft registration card, October '40), "Christis" (news accounts, death notices, social security index), "Christos" ('42 street listings, death certificate), "Christus" (other news accounts, official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties). No first name given on his birth certificate. Was shown as "Cristy" in the 1930 federal census (at age 13). Was a lifelong Lynn resident. Modest build (WWII draft registration, October '40: 5' 6½," 138 lbs.). One of five Grove table waiters dead (also Alexander Dashevsky "Dashev," age 29, Sam Dowaliby, age 33, Mario Marzano, age 26, and Harold Snyderman, age 32), plus club headwaiter Frank Balzarini, age 37. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Meletis and Catherine (Arnotis) Roumeliotis. Burial at St. Mary's Cemetery, Lynn (given name was spelled "Christos" on his stone). His own signature spelling is used here. Widowed wife was buried with her victim husband upon her February 2002 death. Middle name Meletis.

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