Fine
Edna P. Fine
(1922 - 1942)

Age 20. 50 St. Paul Street, Brookline, MA. Born on 2/19/1922, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Defense worker at the Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, MA. Was attending an engagement announcement party for Theodore "Ted" Fisher, age 27, of Brighton (Boston), MA, and Miss Betty Cohen, age 28, of Mattapan (Boston), MA, all ten dead (a widely misreported early group count of "22" including the wedding couple was inflated). Misrepresented in the 11/30/1942 Boston Herald as the bride-to-be. Was one of six party guests identified by name (also Abraham "Richard" Plager, age 34, and Bernard Supowitz, age 36, both of Chelsea, MA, Edward Ross, age 27, of Roxbury, MA, plus the guests of honor), four others not revealed. Her remains were located at Southern Mortuary in Boston. Was a graduate of Dorchester High School for Girls, Boston, 1939, one of six alumnae of the city academy dead (also Miss Beatrice Goldstein and Miss Lillian Golosov, both age 19, Mrs. Ruth McGreevy, age 26, Mrs. Alice Resnick, age 23, and Miss Florence Yaffe, age 20). Was single. Occupation (1940 federal census): bookkeeper. One of 18 fire victims from the Boston suburb of Brookline (also Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Beatrice Ansin, ages 39 and 37, Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Rhea Baron, both age 35, Miss Marion Chalmers, age 30, Mrs. Adele Dreyfus, age 22, Mrs. Jeanne Frutman, age 37, Eugene Gross, age 41, Miss Ruth Karmelin, age 22, Mrs. Dorothy Levin, age 24, Edward "Israel" Loman, age 44, Myer Marks, age 39, Miss Kathleen O'Neil, age 17, Rodric Prendergast, age 18, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore and Adelaide "Addie" Wasserman, ages 39 and 32, and Miss Priscilla White, age 27, all patrons). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Jacob and Lena (Hillson) Fine, same address. Burial at Mount Lebanon (Independent Pride of Boston) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. Annual in memoriam notices were published in Hub newspapers through at least 1946. Middle name Pearl.

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