Age 21. 101 Montgomery Street, North Cambridge (Cambridge), MA. Born on 4/08/1921, in Cambridge. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Machine worker, Simplex Wire & Cable Co., Cambridge. The former Miss Claudia A. Nadeau, married victim John O'Neil, age 28, three hours before the blaze at 7:00 p.m., in Cambridge. Wedding party of four included a 19-year-old sister of the groom, Miss Anna Rita "Sally" O'Neil, maid of honor, and last-minute best man and coworker John F. Doyle, age 25, of Cambridge, both dead. Group was seated at a small table in a corner of the main dining room near the entrance of the passageway leading to the new Broadway Lounge. Was the subject with her new husband of the last photo ever made at the club. Quote by roving Grove photographer Doris "Lynne" Andrews, age 24 (Born 6/09/1918. Died on 9/19/1945, pulmonary tuberculosis, age 27): "I snapped the bridal couple between 9:30 and 9:45. There were four in the party...It would be a miracle if they escaped" (The Boston Globe, 12/03/1942). Was sporting a, "...wine-colored panne velvet frock with aquamarine trimming of beads at the neck..." (The Boston Post, 11/30/1942). Newlyweds were to move into a new apartment at 25 Lee Street, Cambridge, the same night. Rev. Lawrence Michaud (not present) officiated her wedding at Our Lady of Pity Church, North Cambridge, on Saturday evening and also her high mass the next Wednesday. An older brother Lawrence (not present) inquired of reporters at public parole board hearings in November 1946 for convicted club owner Barnett "Barney" Welansky (Born 11/22/1897. Died 1/27/1947, heart failure, age 49): "City officials are to blame in not seeing the building laws were enforced...Why should one man suffer when there are others to blame?" (The Boston Herald, 11/26/1946). Was the second-youngest of nine siblings. Surname (with her new husband) was misspelled "O'Neill" (with two "l"s) on their death certificates and on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and Annie E. (Morin) Nadeau, same address. Burial with her husband at North Cambridge Catholic Cemetery, Cambridge. Middle name Nadeau ("Anna" until three hours earlier).

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