Age 29. 141 Homestead Street, Roxbury (Boston), MA. Born (as Elis Cohen) on 3/07/1913, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Traveling salesman, Northeastern Radio, Inc., of Boston. Went to the club for an evening of recreation with his wife Evelyn, age 27, dead. Couple was survived by a 7-month-old son, Donald. "It was the first occasion since the baby's birth that the Cohens had left the home for an evening out" (The Boston Post, 11/30/1942). With his wife were possibly among the four unnamed victims attending a large engagement party of Theodore "Ted" Fisher, age 27, Brighton (Boston), MA, and Miss Betty Cohen, age 28, Mattapan (Boston), MA (not confirmed, but note the same employer and occupation as Mr. Fisher, and same surname as the bride-to-be). All ten in the latter main dining room party died. One of 60 "probable identifications" inventoried Sunday morning (8:00 a.m.) by Boston City Hospital at Southern Mortuary, Boston (all male). Medium build (WWII draft registration, October '40: 5' 7½," 150 lbs.). One of 237 male patrons to perish in the disaster (also 227 female guests died; another 26 casualties were non-patrons, including two outside passing rescuers, Harold Hawkins, age 46, and Stanley Viator, age 25), a total of 490 dead. With his wife was one of 56 married couples present to both perish, including 22 parental pairs with minors, resulting in 43 children (under the age of 21) being orphaned (plus one child orphaned by the loss of her single widowed father, victim Edward "Israel" Loman, age 44). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. and Bessie C. (Smorgonsky) Cohen. Burial with his wife at Centre Street (Chevra Chai Odom) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. Pair were two of four Grove casualties interred at the above Centre Street collective Jewish cemeteries (also married patrons Mr. and Mrs. Arnold and Gertrude Isaacson, ages 22 and 23 respectively, of Quincy, MA).

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