Age 25. 100 Seaver Street, Roxbury (Boston), MA. Born (as Janet Taitel) on 7/05/1917, in Lynn, MA. Died 11/29/1942 (Sunday), at Cambridge City Hospital, Cambridge, MA, of 2nd and 3rd-degree burns (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Known as "Jean." In a foursome with her husband Maurice, age 26 (Born 3/17/1916. Died 7/16/1992, age 76. Last residence Revere, MA), escaped, his friend Corp. Harold Goldenberg, U.S. Army, age 34, and the latter's girlfriend, Miss Florence Zimmerman, age 22, both of Dorchester (Boston), MA, both dead. Group arrived around 9:15 p.m. Were seated at a small table in the cellar Melody Lounge near the northwest corner where the blaze started. Husband at the city inquests (quote): "The fire was ten feet behind us when my wife and I started for the nearby stairs. When we reached the stairs it was ten feet in front of us" (AP wire article, 12/01/1942). Climbed steps up to the foyer with her husband but was swept by the crowd away from the revolving door exit. The Boston Globe, 12/18/1942: "Somebody brought out the body...but she died at 4 next morning at Cambridge City Hospital." Husband searched seven different Boston hospitals seeking his wife, but did not cross the river into Cambridge. Missing wife was described by her husband to a reporter at the scene as wearing a Benrus watch with a gold link bracelet, an engagement ring with a Tiffany setting, and a gold and platinum wedding band with an engraved rose. Was raised in Boston. Graduate of the Teachers College of City of Boston in 1938 ('38 Lampas yearbook: "Of a sweet and pleasant disposition, and a quiet nature..."). Married on 3/28/1942, in Boston. Name was shown as simply "Jean Levy" on her death certificate and on the final official Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Samuel and Pauline "Polly" (Dekelbaum) Taitel. Burial at Mount Lebanon (Staro-Konstantinov Progressive) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. Tall white-stone marker (name displayed as "Jennie Levy") includes an inlaid ceramic oval with her college yearbook portrait (the same image as shown here), a unique feature among known Grove-victim gravestones. Middle name Taitel.

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