Age 22. 65 Rockland Street, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. Born on 6/04/1920, in Boston. Died of burns (death certificate). Clerk, Railway Express Agency, Inc. (d.b.a. "American Railway Express"), in Boston. His fiancée Miss Eleanor McCarthy, age 22, of West Roxbury, also died. Pair were celebrating the announcement of their planned wedding, "...which was to be held on Christmas Day..." (The Boston Post, 11/30/1942). Mixed-gender foursome also included his coworker Patrick Keleher, age 24, of West Roxbury, and the latter's companion Miss M. Elizabeth "Betty" Flood, age 19, Quincy, MA, both dead. Had attended the afternoon Holy Cross 55-to-12 football upset of nationally top-ranked Boston College at Fenway Park with Mr. Keleher and Miss Flood, trio was joined later in town by his fiancée. One of 60 "probable identifications" inventoried Sunday morning (8:00 a.m.) by Boston City Hospital at Southern Mortuary, Boston (all male). Graduate of English High School, Boston in 1937. Was tall and trim (WWII draft registration, July '41: 6' 2," 172 lbs.). One of 256 males killed (including two outside passing rescue workers) along with 234 women (a total of 490 casualties). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D., Sr., and Rose J. (Haddad) Crowley, same address. Father was a platform sorter at the above American Railway Express. Burial at St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury. One of 24 fire victims interred at St. Joseph's Cemetery, the second-greatest final resting grounds for all Grove casualties (after the connected Mount or "Old" Calvary and New Calvary cemeteries, also in Boston, with a combined total of 30 burials). Full name Joseph Francis Denny Crowley, Jr. 

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