Age 16. 1027 Main Street, Brockton, MA. Born 12/27/1925, in Brighton (Boston), MA. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Gave up her job as a ticket-taker at Keith's Theatre, Brockton, earlier the same Saturday for a new position at Alden Products Co. (radio parts), Brockton, to start on Monday. Went from her Brockton home to Boston by bus on Saturday evening with boyfriend Robert "Truck" Noyes, age 17, of West Bridgewater, MA, dead. A younger sister Beverly, age 13, informed the 11/30/1942 Brockton Daily Enterprise: "She had a new party dress for the occasion and I never saw her look so comely." Brockton Daily Enterprise, 11/30/1942: "Members of the family of Lorraine D. Carlson...to-day held to a slim hope that the attractive young Campello girl might still be found among the injured..." Remains were identified at Southern Mortuary in Boston the following Monday by an initialed bracelet. "Her body was not badly burned and death was said to have been due to monoxide gas poisoning" (Brockton Daily Enterprise, 12/01/1942). An open-casket funeral stirred disputes within the family about the correct identity of the remains. Led to a coffin disinterment 13 months later on 1/09/1944, visual examination proved inconclusive (recalled by the above sister, as Mrs. Beverly Lincoln, at age 63, of her victim sibling in life, to The Enterprise, Brockton, 6/06/1993: "She was like someone drew her, perfect figure, slim waist, well-endowed on top, auburn hair." But, of the viewed remains: "The clothes were all wrong...She was so small-breasted she wore a bandeau bra and her hose was clipped to a girdle - my sister never wore a girdle"). Was the lone Grove casualty (of 490) known to be posthumously exhumed (a requested unearthing of a victim in another party, Mrs. Alice Ducey, age 30, by her estranged mother in June 1944 to collect jewelry for resale was denied in the courts). Was the seventh-youngest patron known present when the fire broke and the fifth-youngest victim overall. Third-youngest female fire death at 16 years and 11 months (after Miss Eleanor Chiampa, age 15, and Miss Ruth Bornstein, age 16, patrons). Parents Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy N., Sr., and Mabel L. (Garfield) Carlson, same address. Burial took place near that of Mr. Noyes at Pine Hill Cemetery, West Bridgewater, where the families decided both victims should rest in proximity. Middle name Dorothy.

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