Age 32. Boarding (with her husband) at 298 Beacon Street, Boston. Born 1/24/1910, Washington, NJ. Died on 12/01/1942 (Tuesday), at 12:25 a.m., at Boston City Hospital, burns and inhalation of smoke (death certificate). Singer in a visiting New Lounge duo with her pianist husband Karol, age 27, dead. Stage (and maiden) name "Ethel Powell." Reported by an uncle, Paul M. Salsburg (not present), to the 11/30/1942 Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, NJ, that she had a, "...fair chance of recovery." Her father came from New Jersey to be at her bedside when she died. "She had been in a critical condition since Saturday" (Long Island Star-Journal, Long Island City, NY, 12/02/1942). Hub landlord Charles E. Worden (to a reporter): "Perhaps that little girl is dead beside her husband. I think she would rather be dead than live without him" (The Boston Globe, 11/30/1942). Unnamed taxi operator to the 12/03/1942 Newton Graphic, Newton, MA: "Ethel Baer [sic]...worked in an office days and danced in the clubs evenings...loving her work, she'd tell us all about it on the way home..." Erroneous early casualty listing at City Hospital as "Eleanor B. Powerell," was later corrected. Was raised in Atlantic City, NJ. Won a beauty contest in Atlantic City at age 21. Appeared as an extra in the lost 1933 First National Pictures sex comedy movie Convention City (all known prints were on pre-safety film, since destroyed). Was previously widowed, late first husband Lee R. Burnham, Jr. (died in 1936). Survived by a son from her first marriage, Lee Burnham III, age 9. Also survived by a twin sister, Mrs. Hanna Salsburg (not present). Frequently billed as "The Girl with The Pleasing Voice." Was one of five visiting entertainers (of 17 present) to lose their lives (also her husband, plus singers Maxine Coleman, age 37, Grace McDermott "Vaughn," age 24, and Melody Lounge relief pianist Howard "Guy Howard" Guy, age 37). Death certificate misstates her date of passing as November 28, the only known such dating error among 490 Grove victims. Former New York City address (35 West 64th Street) was shown on the final official November 1943 Committee on Public Safety list of casualties (but not for her husband). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Judson T. and B. Louise Powell, Ventnor, NJ. Burial in the Powell family lot at Miller Cemetery, New Gretna (Bass River Twsp.), NJ.

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