
Age 35. 26 Clifton Street, Roxbury (Boston), MA. Born 7/25/1907, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Companion (or companions) at the Grove unknown. Her body was transported to Southern Mortuary, Boston. Husband Walter F., age 37 (Born 6/13/1905. Died 2/02/1971, age 65), was not known present. Married in 1928, in Boston. Was previously a shoe stitcher, shoe factory (1930 federal census). Husband was a shoe cutter (era street listings). Couple was separated at the time of the blaze. Was survived by a teenage daughter Dorothy, age 14. Was a lifelong Roxbury resident. One 15 Grove fire victims from the Roxbury "neighborhood" of Boston, and one of 147 victims overall from the city of Boston, by far the most deaths from any single municipality (the south shore city of Quincy, MA, was next with 24 dead). One of 464 club guests killed in addition to 24 non-patrons (including 17 employees, 6 visiting entertainers, one War Bonds salesgirl, also two outside passing rescuers, Harold Hawkins, age 46, and Stanley Viator, age 25), total of 490 deceased. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. and Mary E. (McNicholas) Kast. Burial at St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. One of 24 Grove victims interred at St. Joseph's Cemetery, the second-greatest final resting grounds for all club casualties (after the connected Mount or "Old" Calvary and New Calvary cemeteries, also in Boston, a combined total of 30 burials). Posthumous death anniversary in memoriam notices were published in Hub newspapers as late as 1956, among the longest known such runs (source or sources of the submissions were not included).