Age 35. 188 Euclid Avenue, Lynn, MA. Born 8/21/1907, in Lynn. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Employed in the drafting department, General Electric Co., River Works, Lynn. Was celebrating her 8th wedding anniversary with her husband Lawrence, age 38 (Born 9/15/1904, St. Peters Bay, P.E.I., Canada. Died 11/18/1976, Volusia Co., FL, age 72), survived. Husband was a foreman in the wire and insulation department at the same G.E. "River Works" plant. Couple had attended a performance at a nearby Boston theatre. Pair were in the cellar Melody Lounge when her husband observed a busboy light a match to replace a light bulb. Was guided by her husband with hands clasped up the stairs towards the main revolving door, but were separated by the panicked crowd at the entrance. Her husband was swept into the street when the door collapsed. "...As he looked into the interior which was a mass of flames and a screeching and maddened throng it was plain that nothing could possibly be done" (Daily Evening Item, Lynn, 11/30/1942). "The tragic ordeal of viewing dozens of charred and mutilated bodies ended late last night...in a Boston undertaking parlor where her pitifully burned remains were positively identified by a wedding ring inscribed with her name" (The Boston Globe, 12/01/1942). At Boston Police Headquarters the following Thursday a stepson Robert, age 19, "...called to identify the belongings of his father and stepmother..." (Boston Daily Record, 12/04/1942). Her injured (but not hospitalized) husband was unable to attend the Thursday afternoon funeral of his wife. Was a graduate of Lynn English High School. Married in 1934, in Lynn. Survived by stepsons Robert (above) and Kenneth, age 18, and a birth son Richard, age 4. One of six victims from the city of Lynn (also S/Sergt. Anthony P. Marotta, U.S.M.C., age 23. his wife Alice, age 20, club waiter Christes Roumeliotis, age 25, Miss Dorothy Scherer, age 20, and Miss Leah Sudnovsky, age 23). Parents Mr. Carl (birth certificate), John R. (1930 federal census), John K. (death certificate), or J. Arthur (The Boston Globe, 12/01/1942), and the late Mrs. Ethel S. (Brown) McRobbie. Burial at Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn.

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