Age 24. 14 Browne Street, Brookline, MA. Born (as Dorothy Eleanor Franklin) on 1/29/1918, in Boston. Died on 11/28/1942, at 11:10 p.m., Boston City Hospital, carbon monoxide poisoning and burns (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). In a farewell party for her husband Lieut. Bernard N. "Bucky" Levin, U.S. Army, age 30, latter to leave for Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont on Monday. Reported by the 12/01/1942 Boston Post that the group consisted of eight members, six died including her sister-in-law, Mrs. Jeanne "Jennie" Frutman, age 37, of Brookline. Above husband (Born 1/13/1912. Died 6/14/1982, age 70. Last residence Rochester, NY) and a brother-in-law, Mr. Israel "Pete" Frutman, age 40 (Born 4/09/1902. Died 9/13/1982, age 80. Last residence Hollywood, FL), were the lone two survivors when they stepped outside the club for a smoke. At the spring 1943 Grove manslaughter trials her husband stated the party numbered only five (none identified), with no other survivors. Latter testified he paused while leaving when his wife asked him to buy a War Bond in the lobby, dramatically added (without elaboration): "I was at the opening of the Grove and I was at the closing of the Grove" (The Boston Herald, 4/03/1943). Was raised in Boston and in Brookline. Graduate of Brookline High School in 1935 (ironic "favorite song" selection in her class yearbook: "Smoke Rings"). Married in 1941, in Brookline. Her death at 11:10 p.m. was the first recorded by name among scores dead (or near death) arriving at City Hospital (even before the flames were extinguished). Her body was later removed to Southern Mortuary, Boston. Husband was one of two fire survivors named "Bernard Levin" (also Mr. Bernard N. "Ben" Levin, age 40, a survivor in a different party). With her husband was one of 25 married couples present where one spouse perished while the other survived (the "other" Mr. Levin also lost his wife, Sadie, age 38). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Jacob and Rose A. (Boraks) Franklin. Interment at Grove Street (Har Moriah) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA (coincidentally the same collective Jewish burial grounds as the "alternate" Mrs. Levin).

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