McCullough
F. Natalie McCullough
(1911 - 1942)

Age 31. 137 Main Street, Saugus, MA. Born on 9/29/1911, in Saugus. Died on 11/29/1942 (Sunday), at 1:30 p.m., Boston City Hospital, burns and suffocation (death certificate). Stenographer, Batchelder & Snyder Co. (wholesale provisions), Boston. Known by her middle name Natalie. First name Florence. Attached to a main dining room party of 12 to honor victim Pvt. Henry T. Fitzgerald, U.S. Army, age 30, home on furlough from Florida, eleven dead. Group had just arrived after dinner at the nearby Parker House hotel. A younger sister Mary (as Mrs. Henry Hatch, of Swampscott, MA, not present), related decades later to the Daily Evening Item, Lynn, MA, 11/27/1992: "There was one lone survivor of the group and he told my mother that my sister...when she heard 'Fire'...was the first one to jump up and run right across the table" (refers to survivor Pvt. Robert Horrigan, U.S. Army, age 29 (Born 10/04/1913. Died 5/09/1997, age 83. Last residence Turners Falls, MA), of Turners Falls (Montague), MA. Sister added: "And she was the first one at the revolving door...she was on the very bottom of the whole pile." The same sister phoned the WBZ Boston radio 8/01/1984 Larry Glick talk show interview of Grove author Edward Keyes. Informed that beverages had been served but that they were not yet touched. Said Miss McCullough was taken to City Hospital alive but unconscious, was not allowed to be seen by the family. Caller identified her sister's body, which she said did not appear burned. Was single. Was a graduate of Saugus High School in 1929. Graduate of Malden Commercial School, Malden, MA, 1930. Was the lone Grove casualty from the north shore town of Saugus. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. and Mary C. (Conway) McCullough, same address. Burial at Riverside Cemetery, Saugus.

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