Age 42. 107 Ocean Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born on 7/17/1900, in Boston. Died of burns (death certificate). Occupation: "at home" (death certificate). Husband Richard age 48, also died. Couple was survived by children Margaret, age 14, Mary, age 10, Richard F., Jr., age 4, and Katherine, age 1. Early news report: "Now the children are fatherless and probably motherless as well, for Mrs. Pierce is among the missing and Richard Pierce is among the dead" (Boston Daily Record, 11/30/1942). Immediate disposition of her remains were not noted on the official Boston Committee on Public Safety tally of dead, one of eleven such cases among the 489 Grove victims listed (one of the actual 490 fire casualties was omitted from the published list, victim Wilbur Meserve, age 25, error apparently clerical in nature). Was raised in Boston. Married in 1927, in Boston. The above children were four of 43 minor offspring (then under age 21) orphaned by the loss of both parents (one other child was orphaned by the loss of her single widowed father, victim Edward "Israel" Loman, age 44), also 101 additional minors lost one parent each. With her husband was one of 56 married couples present to both perish, including 22 with children, resulting in 43 minors (under the age of 21) being orphaned (plus one minor daughter orphaned when her widowed father died). Couple were two of 38 casualties from the Dorchester "neighborhood" of Boston, twice the loss sustained by any other Hub community (Brighton district was next with 19 dead, followed by Roxbury, 14 dead, West Roxbury, 12 dead, and Allston, 10 dead). Late parents Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. and Margaret T. (McCool) Langtry. Her father died of phthisis (tuberculosis) one month before her birth. Her widowed mother died in 1938. Burial with her victim husband at Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, MA.

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