MacMillan
Donald R. MacMillan
(1911 - 1942)

Age 26. 40 Ruthven Street, Quincy, MA. Born on 10/07/1916, in Dorchester (Boston), MA. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Was known by her middle name Frances. First name Dorothy. Husband Donald, age 30, died early on the following Monday in a Cambridge, MA, hospital. Pair were at the club with a second couple, Mr. and Mrs. Louis "Barry" and Helen Nash, ages 29 and 26 respectively, of Wollaston (Quincy), MA, both dead. All acquainted aboard a honeymoon cruise from Boston to Virginia Beach, VA, in June 1941. Foursome was subject of an image made in the Grove main dining room one year earlier, posthumously reprinted in the 11/30/1942 Quincy Patriot Ledger (caption): "This photo was snapped exactly a year ago...at the scene of the tragic fire. The two Quincy men and their wives in the group are all dead today" (close-up shown here). Graduate of North Quincy High School and Burdett College (secretarial), Boston. Married on 6/14/1941, in North Quincy (companion couple were wed on the same date, but in Jamaica Plain, MA). Survived by an infant son Richard, age 7 weeks. Son (born on 10/07/1942, three days prior to daughter Ellen of Mr. and Mrs. Nash) was the youngest male offspring to lose any parents in the holocaust. An older brother James T. Hughes, of West Quincy (not present), attended public hearings in November 1946 to oppose the prison release of convicted club owner Barnett "Barney" Welansky (Born 11/22/1897. Died 1/27/1947, heart failure, age 49). "Hughes asserted Welansky 'should have been sent to the chair'" (Boston Traveler, 11/25/1946). Surname (with her husband) was misspelled "MacMillen" (with an "e" on the third syllable) on the final official Boston Committee on Public Safety master casualties list (correct surname spelling on both death certificates). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. and Catherine "Kitty" (White) Hughes. Burial with her victim husband at Mt. Benedict Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA.

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