Age 19. 240 Roxbury Street, Keene, NH. Born 11/01/1923, in Keene, NH. Died of burns (death certificate). Junior at Keene, NH, High School. Known as "Fred" (also "Fred, Jr."). In a main dining room party of six with schoolmate Anna "Ann Marie" Clark, age 16 (Born 7/23/1926. Died as Ann Marie Gallagher on 5/24/2017, age 90. Last residence Keene, NH), injured. The outing was planned by their parents for himself and his sweetheart. Recalled by the former Miss Clark (as Mrs. Ann Gallagher, at age 71) in a letter to Yankee magazine, November 1998: "As Fred Jr. and I were dancing, we saw flames everywhere. Fred said, 'Get on your hands and knees and cover your face.'" Reported by an unnamed bystander that he pulled Ann Marie and his mother onto the sidewalk then returned inside the club and never came out. The Morning Union, Springfield, MA, 3/24/1980: "Fred Jr....was credited with helping a woman escape before perishing himself" (his mother's 1980 obituary). Was pronounced dead upon arrival at Mass General Hospital. Was single. Planned to join the U.S. Navy in January. Named posthumously to the 1942 All-New Hampshire High School Football state alternate squad, the only non-senior selected (Manchester Union, Manchester, NH, 11/30/1942: "One of the most fleet-footed and shifty halfbacks to play on a local team in years..."). Recalled in 2012 by a former high school teammate, Jack Zimmerman (not present), at age 86: "Fred was just a nice, quiet, self-abasing guy" (New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester, NH, 12/07/2012). Shown by his popular-usage first name "Fred" on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred P., Sr. (dead), and Hortense L. (injured), Sharby. Double funeral with his father was held in Keene the following Thursday (note his legal first name "Frederick" varies slightly from that of his father, "Fred"). "Representatives of all branches of the motion picture industry in New England and New York, faculty members, football players and members of the senior class...and 1,000 relatives and friends were among those attending the service..." (The Boston Herald, 12/04/1942). Scholastic gridiron teammates served as pallbearers. Burial with his father at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Keene, NH. Middle name Paul.

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