
Age 35. 195 Court Street, Plymouth, MA. Born (as Jennie Hurwitz) on 5/23/1907, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). In a main dining room party of seven with her married older sister Mrs. Ethel Slate, age 48, the latter's husband Jacob "Jake," age 53, Mr. and Mrs. Vito and Teresa "Jeanne" Caradonna, ages 57 and 42 respectively, all of Quincy, MA, and Mr. and Mrs. Dominic and Adele Penardi, ages 59 and 51, of Stoughton, MA. Mr. Slate (Born 12/15/1888. Died 8/10/1979, age 90) and Mrs. Penardi (Born 4/16/1891. Died 2/23/1979, age 87) were the lone two survivors. Group was celebrating her imminent discharge from a Boston hospital, due home on Sunday morning (nature of her hospitalization was not disclosed). Remains were identified by her husband William, age 43 (Born 12/18/1898. Died 11/08/1965, age 66), not present, late Sunday afternoon at Waterman's Funeral Home, in Boston, "...by means of clothing she wore...The body was badly burned" (Brockton Daily Enterprise, Brockton, MA, 11/30/1942). Husband conducted a cigar and confectionery business in Plymouth. Another married older sister, Mrs. Mary Alpert (not present), informed the 12/01/1942 Brockton Daily Enterprise (quote): "The party was to celebrate her recovery. Ethel and her husband and Genet [sic] thought it rated a dinner and a show. The Grove had both." Married in 1927, in Chelsea, MA. Survived by children Ina, age 13, Florence, age 6, and Edward, age 1. First name was variously shown as "Jennie" (birth certificate, 1910 and '20 federal censuses); "Geanette" ('40 federal census); "Genet" (multiple news accounts); and "Jeanette" ('30 federal census, era street listings, her death certificate, and the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety list of casualties). One of two Grove casualties from the historic town of Plymouth (also William McLean, age 34, a patron in a separate party). Late parents Mr. and Mrs. Louis and Annie (Pelz) Hurwitz. Burial with her victim sister at Mount Lebanon (Quincy Hebrew) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA (name spelled "Jeanette" on her stone).