Age 25. 19 Pearl Street, Waltham, MA. Born on 4/10/1917, in Waltham. Died on 11/30/1942 (Monday), at 9:30 a.m., Boston City Hospital, burns and inhalation of smoke (death certificate). Clerk at Raytheon Manufacturing Co. (radio and electronic devices), Waltham. Was known as "Grace Evelyn." Was inducted into the new WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) program of the U.S. Naval Reserve five days earlier on November 23. Attended the club with fellow WAVES inductee and friend Miss Virginia Brooks, age 26, of Winthrop, MA, dead. "She was horribly burned but there was still a spark of life in her crumpled form. At City Hospital...doctors and nurses waged a valiant battle to fend off death" (The Boston Post, 12/02/1942). Also: "They were successful for a day and a half, no more." Was the second-ever casualty of the newly-created WAVES naval service after her Grove companion Miss Brooks. Graduate of Waltham High School in 1935. Attended Burdett College (secretarial), Boston. Was single. Father filed a petition on December 16 in Suffolk Superior Court to request a receiver take charge of Grove assets. Also filed a suit on 9/01/1948 in Suffolk Probate Court to be named administrator of the estate of the late club owner Barnett "Barney" Welansky, dissatisfied with the nominal $160 settlement per each claim of nearly 500 fire victims (first suit was still pending at the time the latter was initiated). One of five Grove victims from the "Watch City" Hub suburb of Waltham (also Mr. and Mrs. Felix and Helen Lillian Cafarella, ages 28 and 26, Robert Derbyshire, age 23, and Mrs. Mary J. Duggan, age 26, all patrons). Parents Mr. and Mrs. James M. and Alice I. (Riley) Brown, same address. Burial at St. Paul's Cemetery, Arlington, MA, one of three casualties interred at the above resting grounds (also Miss Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Keefe, age 20, and James "Ekky" Watson, age 32, patrons).

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