Age 28. 1132 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston (Boston), MA. Born on 10/30/1914, Fitchburg, MA. Died 11/29/1942 (Sunday), of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Employed as an office secretary until a few months prior when she resigned due to ill health. Described as, "tall, dark and lovely..." (Fitchburg Sentinel, 11/30/1942). Known as "Connie." In a multi-table film industry party on the main dining room raised rear terrace to honor cowboy actor Charles "Buck" Jones, age 50, dead, with her husband Martin "Marty," age 28 (Born Martin B. Orenstein on 8/01/1914. Died 12/31/2003, age 89. Last residence Gilman, CT), injured. Husband, a freelance journalist, was also a self-employed press agent serving Monogram Pictures as the Hub escort for Mr. Jones. Husband recalled in a 1982 essay: "My wife asked about her fur coat which I had checked only a few minutes before...We had taken only a few steps when the lights went out. I never saw my wife alive again" (Boston Herald American, 11/28/1982). Her remains were brought to Southern Mortuary, Boston. Was a graduate of Fitchburg High School in 1931. Graduate of Boston University, 1937. Married on 8/04/1938. During a 1940 vacation with her husband to Mexico City appeared as an American tourist in a film (unidentified) when a local producer, "...recognized Mrs. Sheridan as a photogenic type and offered her a role in the picture" (Fitchburg Sentinel, 11/30/1942). Was the youngest victim (of 16) in the above movie business gathering of 29. One of just two confirmed female fatalities (of 64 names) on the first short "List of Known Dead," published in an early special edition of the 11/29/1942 Boston Sunday Globe (also victim Mrs. Margaret McFarlin, age 52). Her survivor husband and his fire rescuer, Electrician's Mate Howard Sotherden, U.S. Navy, age 19 (in 1942), of Tiverton, RI (Born 8/28/1923. Died 4/04/2002, age 78. Last residence South San Francisco, CA), made a remarkable reunion aboard the naval attack transport U.S.S. Fremont in the South Pacific, over 9,000 miles away in October 1944, where her widowed husband served as a war correspondent (Mr. Sheridan, Boston Herald American, 11/28/1982: "Just before the evening movie on October 12, 1944, a tall, brown haired, blue-eyed young man approached me. He introduced himself...'I pulled you out of the Cocoanut Grove fire'"). Separated parents Mrs. Mary Agnes (Shanahan), same address, and Mr. Alfred D. Misslin, of Leominster, MA. Burial at St. Bernard's Cemetery, Fitchburg. Middle name Josephine.

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