Age 46. 79 Falmouth Street, Portland, ME. Born 1/01/1896, Plungyan, Lithuania. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). District representative for H. G. Fischer & Co. (X-ray and electro products), of Chicago, IL. Wife Amelia, age 41, also died. Couple was located in a main dining room party of six with Mr. and Mrs. Theodore "Ted" and Adelaide "Addie" Wasserman, ages 39 and 32 respectively, of Brookline, MA (recently of Portland, ME), and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard "Ben" and Sadie Levin, ages 40 and 38, of Newton, MA, the latter a married older sister of Mrs. Wasserman. All died except Mr. Levin (Born 7/04/1902. Died 3/05/1971, age 68. Last residence Newton). Mrs. Levin was captured smiling in the background of a photo of an unconnected foursome taken three hours before the blaze by roving club photographer Doris "Lynne" Andrews, age 24 (the latter was outside the club when fire broke), then published on the front page of The Boston Globe on 12/03/1942 (Thursday), after a Globe sales employee found and "commandeered" the camera from vacant darkroom offices. Was one of 60 "probable identifications" inventoried (by Boston City Hospital) at 8:00 AM on Sunday at Southern Mortuary in Boston (all male). To the U.S. in 1907. Was living with his wife in Worcester, MA, as of the 1930 federal census ("manager, shoe store"). With his wife were the lone residents of Maine to perish (victim Miss Mary Grady, age 25, boarded since 1936 at Portland, ME, but was a permanent resident of Providence, RI). Parents Mr. and Mrs. George and Sonya (Schloam) Bernstein. Burial with his wife at Oheb Shalom Cemetery, Hillside, NJ. With Mrs. Bernstein were two of four Grove casualties interred in the Garden State (also club singer Mrs. Ethel Bauer, age 32, and patron Ensign John Bauer, U.S.N.R., age 27, the latter two unconnected except for common last names). Middle name Morris.

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