Age 31. 158 Walnut Avenue, Roxbury (Boston), MA. Born on 5/03/1911, in Cambridge, MA. Died on 12/01/1942 (Tuesday), at Boston City Hospital, carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Proprietor, French Millinery Shop (women's headwear), 4 Lowell Street, Boston. Operated under the modified business name "Herman Hirsch." Companion (or companions) if any at the club unknown. His remains were taken to Southern Mortuary in Boston. Was single. His surname was misspelled "Houch" (with a "u" instead of an "r") on his death certificate, correct spelling on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties. Modest build (WWII draft registration, October '40: 5' 8½," 140 lbs.). One of 81 Grove fire victims (of 490 total) recorded on their death certificates as having expired after the actual fire date of November 28 (also club singer Ethel Bauer, age 32, who died on 12/01/1942, but was misrecorded as passing on "November 28"). Parents Mrs. Edna (Jacobson), same address, and the late Mr. William Horch. Mother (not present) was also a longtime Boston millinery shop owner. Burial at Washington Street (Beth Joseph) Cemetery, Woburn, MA. One of nine fire casualties interred at Washington Street collective Jewish cemeteries (also Milton Adler, age 25, George Karnow, age 25, Miss Barbara Keshen, age 23, Philip Seletsky, age 39, club waiter Harold Snyderman, age 32, Hyman Strogoff, age 41, Jacob "Jack" Vigdor, age 47, and Miss Florence Zimmerman, age 22). Middle name Conrad.

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