Age 39. 68 Easton Street, Allston (Boston), MA. Born on 6/07/1903, in Cambridge, MA. Died on 12/02/1942 (Wednesday), at 4:30 a.m., at Boston City Hospital, bronchitis and pneumonia (death certificate). Occupation: "housework" (death certificate). Was present with her husband Harold, age 34, in a group of 15 dubbed the "Allston-Brighton Sewing Circle" party to celebrate the wedding anniversaries of Mr. and Mrs. John and Alice Murray, ages 52 and 48, of Dorchester (Boston), MA (their 29th), and Mr. and Mrs. John and Josephine Donovan, ages 34 and 33 respectively, of West Roxbury (Boston), MA (their 11th). All but one member perished, Frederick Harrington, age 52 (Born 9/21/1890. Died 4/21/1972, age 81. Last residence Dorchester). Wife of the latter Catherine "Vernie," age 51, did not attend. Group was seated in the main dining room at combined tables to make one long table at the right of the rolling wooden dance floor. Observed by Mr. Harrington (a former firefighter) at the spring 1943 Grove manslaughter trials (quote): "I was the only one of the 15 at the party that's now alive" (The Boston Post, 3/30/1943). Was raised in Cambridge. Married in 1934, in Boston. Was formerly a piano teacher (1940 federal census). With her husband were two of 20 names chosen by the Commonwealth as representative victims at the spring 1943 Grove manslaughter trials of brothers Barnett "Barney" (Born 11/22/1897. Died 1/27/1947, heart failure, age 49) and James Welansky (Born 4/20/1896. Died 4/10/1962, age 65), also club wine steward Jacob "Jack" Goldfine (Born 3/31/1895. Died 3/26/1968, age 72), latter two found innocent on all charges. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Peter and Mary (Gandet) Doucette. Burial with her husband at St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA (recorded with her husband on their death certificates as interred at Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, MA). Middle name Frances.

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