Age 22. 58 Winston Road, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born on 9/04/1920, in Medford, MA. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Bookkeeper, H. & L. Motor Trucking Service, of Boston. In a mixed-gender foursome with her companion Corp. Harold Goldenberg, U.S. Army, age 24, of Dorchester, and Mr. and Maurice, age 26, and wife Jennie "Jean" Levy, age 25, of Roxbury (Boston), MA. Mr. Levy (Born 3/17/1916. Died 7/16/1992, age 76. Last residence Revere, MA) was friends with Corp. Goldenberg and the lone party survivor. Mr. Levy at the city inquests on 11/30/1942 (quote): "We got to the Cocoanut Grove at 9:15...We waited about 10 minutes for a table in the dining room and then we went downstairs to the Melody Lounge" (Evening Tribune, Lawrence, MA, 12/01/1942). Group was seated at a small table against a wall adjacent to the northwest corner where the fire started. "Corporal Harold Goldenberg...and Miss Florence Zimmerman...were trampled down in the rush" (The Boston Post, 11/30/1942). Mr. Levy, later a key witness to the start of the fire, related at the city inquests that Corp. Goldenberg, "...was the man who was blamed by the bar boy [Stanley Tomaszewski, age 16, survived] for unscrewing the light bulb" (Roxbury Citizen, 12/03/1942). Was raised in Dorchester. Was single. With Corp. Goldenberg were two of 38 to perish from the Dorchester section of Boston, twice the casualty count of any other Hub "neighborhood" (Brighton district was next, with 19 victims). Was the last alphabetically of 490 persons to succumb in the Grove disaster. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry and Rose (Wachter) Zimmerman, same address. Burial at Washington Street (Kenesseth Israel) Cemetery, Woburn, MA.

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