
Age 26. 47 Cushing Street, Wollaston (Quincy), MA. Born on 4/19/1916, in Boston. Died of burns (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). In a mixed-gender foursome with her husband Louis "Barry," age 29, and Mr. and Mrs. Donald and Dorothy "Frances" MacMillan, ages 30 and 26 respectively, of Quincy, all dead. Couples both married on 6/14/1941 (Nashes in Jamaica Plain, MA, MacMillans in North Quincy, MA), met aboard a June 1941 honeymoon cruise from Boston to Virginia Beach, VA, and remained friends. A group photo seated in the Grove main dining room made exactly one year before the tragedy was posthumously published in the 11/30/1942 Quincy Patriot Ledger (detail shown here). Was raised in Boston. Resident of Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA, at the time of her marriage. Survived by a baby daughter Ellen Marie, age 6 weeks (born on 10/10/1942), the youngest child to lose any parents in the blaze. The same daughter (as Mrs. Ellen Goggin, of Wethersfield, CT), interviewed by the Associated Press, 11/23/1992, at age 50, reported she was raised by an older sister of her late mother, and that she never met son Richard of the MacMillans who was born three days earlier. With her husband and their companions were two of 56 married couples present to both perish, including 22 pairs with children, resulting in 43 minors (under the age of 21) being orphaned (plus one minor daughter orphaned when her widowed father died). Late parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. and Ellen J. (Evans) Walsh. Burial with her husband at St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. Middle name Marie (reported as "Walsh" on the official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master casualties list).