Age 26. 12 Kilsyth Terrace (apartments) #31, Brighton (Boston), MA. Born 7/16/1916, in Portland, ME. Died on 11/29/1942 (Sunday), carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Husband Leon B., age 25 (Born 9/13/1917. Died 5/21/2007, age 89. Last residence Canton, MA), escaped injured. Husband was foreman at a family business, Nathan Levitan & Co., Inc. (silk underwear), Boston. Couple was in a mixed foursome with her younger brother Gerald "Jerry" Widrow, age 21 (Born 1/06/1921. Died 4/14/2003, age 82. Last residence Miami, FL), of Portland, ME, injured, and the latter's companion, Miss Bernice Sussman, age 20, of Philadelphia, PA, dead, both students attending the University of Pennsylvania. Portland Press Herald, 11/30/1942: "According to relatives here, Mr. and Mrs. Levitan and Widrow and an unidentified girl from Philadelphia, had gone to the night club Saturday night from the Levitans'...home, where Widrow had come to pass the Thanksgiving holiday." Group had been present only three minutes when fire enveloped the building. Was guided by her husband towards the main revolving door. "Then without warning the crowd made a desperate shove and his wife fell down. He tried to get to her. The crowd wouldn't let him" (The Boston Post, 11/30/1942). Remains were identified by an uncle on Sunday at Southern Mortuary, Boston. Her husband was confined to Boston City Hospital until December 8. Was a graduate of Portland, ME, High School in 1933. Graduated Westbrook Junior College, Westbrook, ME. Married on 8/28/1940, in Portland, ME. Associated with Gilchrist's Dept. Stores, of Boston, prior to her marriage. Husband remarried in 1951. Her survivor brother, later a longtime salesman for Caloric Appliance Corp. (gas stoves), of Topton, PA, was eulogized in his April 2003 obituary: "An articulate speaker...his favorite quote was 'That's done,' after finishing The New York Times crossword puzzle in ink." With her husband was one of 25 married couples present where one spouse perished and the other survived. Parents Mrs. Edith (Matson), of Portland, ME, and the late Mr. Maurice J. Widrow. Burial at Mt. Sinai (Tifereth Israel) Cemetery, Portland, ME. One of six Grove casualties (of 490 total) interred "Down East" (also H. Frank Armstrong, age 29, bartender Martin Breen, age 41, Ensign Alonzo Hearne, Jr., U.S.N.R., age 24, service cashier Miss Katherine "Kate" Swett, age 67, and Mrs. Ethel Mae Williams, age 26), all at different Maine locations. Middle name Frances.

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