Morris
Louise E. Morris
(1911 - 1942)

Age 31. 51 Jackson Street, Cambridge, MA. Born 4/23/1911, in Everett, MA. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Stenographer, defense plant (death certificate). Companion (or companions) at the Grove were unreported. Her remains were identified at Southern Mortuary, Boston. Rated among the few fire victims with no known mention in disaster news coverage beyond her inclusion on published casualty lists and in printed death notices. Was raised in Everett. Was previously a file clerk, state welfare (1940 federal census). Was single. One of 19 Grove victims from the neighboring city of Cambridge (also Patrick Courtney, age 25, Miss Norrine Curtin, age 26, John F. Doyle, age 25, Arthur Dzendolet, age 28, Edward Fogel, age 34, Miss Mildred Fox, age 29, Herbert "Jack" Haines, age 26, Francis "Frank" Melvin, Jr., age 26, Justin Morgan, age 21, Robert Murphy, age 35, Miss Anna Rita O'Neil, age 19, newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. John, Jr., and Claudia O'Neil, ages 28 and 21, club porter Shadrack "Shady" Plenty, age 54, Mr. and Mrs. John and Josephine Powell, ages 34 and 29, Joseph Seidman, age 30, and James Slattery, age 41), tied with Worcester, MA, for the third-most deaths from any single municipality after Boston proper (147 victims) and the south shore city of Quincy, MA (24 dead). One of 406 victims from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (New York state was next with 15 dead, followed by New Hampshire, nine killed). One of 228 victims showing "carbon monoxide poisoning" as the primary cause of death on their death certificates, the same count (exact) as those recorded dead from "burns" (eight more displayed both causes, while an additional 26 gave other origins or stated simply "trapped in burning building"). Parents Mrs. Endora G. "Edna" (Thompson) and stepfather Mr. Francis X. Veillette (surname was spelled "Vailletti" in published death notices, "Veillette" elsewhere), same address. Birth father Mr. Frederick P. Morris. Burial at Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge.

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