
Age 24. 108 Chestnut Avenue, Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA. Born on 1/18/1918, in Boston. Died on 11/29/1942 (Sunday), at 4:30 a.m., at Boston City Hospital, carbon monoxide poisoning and inhalation of smoke (death certificate). Occupation: "housework" (death certificate). Companion (or companions) at the Grove unknown. Her remains were identified at Southern Mortuary in Boston. Was single. Was raised in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston. Formerly a saleswoman, candy store (1940 federal census). Member of the general committee of the Blessed Sacrament Church Dramatic Club, of Jamaica Plain. Was one of eight to perish from the Hub "neighborhood" of Jamaica Plain (also Mrs. Lillian Daley, age 31, Miss Rita Duffley, age 28, Mr. and Mrs. Louis, Jr., and Anna Meyer, ages 28 and 24, Miss Antoinette Pivorunas "Powers," age 19, and Mr. and Mrs. John and Marion Steensen, ages 29 and 23, all patrons). One of 81 fire victims (of 490 total) recorded on their death certificates as having died after the actual fire date of November 28 (plus Grove singer Ethel Bauer, age 32, who expired on 12/01/1942, but was misrepresented as passing on "November 28"). Parents Mrs. Nora (Joyce), same address, and the late Mr. John Gibbons. Her widowed mother died ten weeks later on 2/05/1943. Mother was one of at least six parents of fire victims to succumb within six months after the disaster (also: victims Mrs. Alice Resnick, age 23, mother died on 2/01/1943; Miss Eula Place, age 21, mother died on 2/04/1943; musician Bernardo Fazioli, age 45, mother died on 3/07/1943, John Steensen, age 29, father died on 3/18/1943; and Mrs. Pauline Saunders, age 28, father died on 5/18/1943, unknown if any parental deaths were tragedy-induced or not). Burial at New Calvary Cemetery, Mattapan (Boston), MA. One of 30 Grove casualties interred at New Calvary Cemetery (22 burials) and its adjoining Mount (or "Old") Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale (Boston), MA (8 burials), more than at any other single site, followed by St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA (24 burials), then Mount Lebanon Cemetery, also in West Roxbury (23 burials). Middle name Frances.