Graham
Margaret "Peggy" Graham
(1914 - 1942)

Age 28. 7 Cleaves Street, Roxbury (Boston), MA. Born 11/08/1914, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Joiner, box manufacturing (death certificate). Known as "Peggy." Was at the Grove with companions Miss Sophia Antico, age 28, of Somerville, MA, and Miss Roberta Jennie Russell, age 29, of Everett, MA, all dead. All-girls trio decided to attend the nightspot after listening to the afternoon B.C. Eagles / Holy Cross Crusaders football game broadcast over WNAC Boston radio at the Antico home. Was single. Raised in Roxbury. Was the second-youngest of seven siblings. Made news earlier the same month when she successfully retrieved a handbag snatched from her by three youths at Egleston subway station, Boston, with the help of Hub police (Boston Traveler, 11/03/1942: "As the boys ran off with the bag, containing 97 cents, Miss Graham leaped into a cab and gave chase..."). One of 11 fire victims (of 489 listed, one victim name was missing) with no immediate disposition of remains recorded on the official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety list of casualties. One of 14 lost from the Hub "neighborhood" of Roxbury. Parents Mrs. Bridget J. (Furlong), same address, and the late Mr. Alexander S. Graham. Burial at Mt. Benedict Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA (a separate Boston district from Roxbury). One of eight Grove casualties interred at Mt. Benedict Cemetery (also Francis Connell, age 21, Miss Elizabeth "Betty" Kirwan, age 20, Mr. and Mrs. Donald and Dorothy "Frances" MacMillan, ages 30 and 26, Miss Antoinette Pivorunas "Powers," age 19, and Mr. and Mrs. John and Christina Wessling, ages 34 and 29, all patrons).

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