Gatturna
Grace Gatturna
(1914 - 1942)

Age 28. 14 Zeller Street, Roslindale (Boston), MA. Born (as Grace Catherine Gibbons) on 2/14/1914, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). In a main dining room group of six with her husband Francis, age 31, latter the lone party member to survive but who ended his life by fire-related suicide on 1/09/1943. Gathering was to honor John Steensen, age 29, of Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA, dead, leaving for military service the following Monday. With the others had attended the historic afternoon 28-point-underdog Holy Cross Crusaders' 55-to-12 football rout of undefeated (8 wins, 0 losses) Boston College at Fenway Park. Remains were transported to Southern Mortuary in Boston. Her widowed husband was confined to Mass General Hospital for one week, then returned to his post office work before being readmitted by his family to the psychiatric services of Mass General, from where he plunged to his death through a closed third-floor window to a paved lot below. Was raised in Jamaica Plain. Married on 6/22/1941, in West Roxbury (newlyweds photographed in the next-day Boston Globe riding in a horse-drawn buggy, caption: "The carriage was obtained as a joke by the best man..."). Couple had no children. Parents Mrs. Viola J. (Crovo), same address, and the late Mr. Patrick E. "Packy" Gibbons. Her father, a construction worker, was killed in July 1936 when a steam shovel cable snapped at a Park Street subway extension project in Boston (The Boston Evening Globe, 7/31/1936: "...The crane arm fell, striking...with its full force, causing almost instant death."). Burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale (Boston), where she was joined by her husband six weeks later. Couple were two of 30 Grove victims interred at Mount (or "Old") Calvary Cemetery (8 burials) and its adjoining New Calvary Cemetery, Mattapan (Boston), MA (22 burials), more than at any other single location.

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