Age 48. 52 Dysart Street, Quincy, MA. Born (as Ethel Horowitz) on 8/10/1894, Micholaiv, Russia. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). In a main dining room party of seven (five dead) with her husband Jacob "Jake," age 53 (Born Jacob Slatekowitch on 12/15/1888, Odessa, Russia. Died 8/10/1979, in Quincy, fall in a parking lot, age 90. Last residence Quincy), survived. Husband was owner of J. Slate, Inc. (tobacco shop), 71 Washington Street, Quincy. Also present her married younger sister, Mrs. Jeanette Zall, age 35, of Plymouth, MA, dead (husband of latter William, age 43, was not present), plus Mr. Vito Caradonna, age 57, and wife Teresa "Jeanne," age 42, both dead, of Quincy, and Mr. Dominic Penardi, age 59, and wife Adele, age 51 (Born 4/16/1891. Died 2/23/1979, age 87. Last residence Stoughton, MA), escaped, of Stoughton, MA. Group was celebrating the imminent release of Mrs. Zall from an unspecified hospital stay. Reported by survivor Mrs. Penardi that just before the fire broke she and Mrs. Slate went to the powder room adjoining the ladies foyer restroom with Mrs. Caradonna. Mrs. Penardi to Boston Police, 11/29/1942: "I went into a private toilet and when I came out, they were all gone." Mrs. Slate then made her way through the crowd back to her husband. Was led by Mr. Slate towards an exit. "Jake clung to Ethel's hand and tried to help her fight against the mounting pressure...He decided that all he could do was to...push blindly toward the door" (Holocaust!, by author Paul Benzaquin). Also: "When Ethel began to sag on his arm, he tried...to shake her back to awareness. But he could not do it." To the U.S. in 1903. Surname was modified at the time from "Horowitz" to Hurwitz. Married in 1912, in Boston. First name was reported as "Rose" on an 11/30/1942 Boston Post list of persons reported as missing (possibly an error or a popular name). Survived by adult sons Harold, age 29, and Albert, age 26, also a minor son Paul, age 20. Her husband became the oldest known living Grove fire survivor upon the January 1971 death of patron Michael A. Fitzgerald, of Quincy (at age 88), and the first survivor to reach age 90 (in December 1978). Late parents Mr. and Mrs. Louis and Annie (Pelz) Hurwitz (formerly Horowitz). Burial with her victim sister at Mount Lebanon (Quincy Hebrew) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA.

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