Johnson
Mary B. Johnson
(1900 - 1942)

Age 42. 26 Rollinson Road, Worcester, MA. Born 6/29/1900, in Worcester. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). At the club in an all-Worcester party of five including her husband Eric, age 43, a Worcester Police sergeant, all dead. Others present: Mr. and Mrs. John and Lucia "Lucy" Moossa, ages 32 and 29 respectively, and Samuel Falcone, age 28. Worcester Telegram, 11/30/1942: "Mrs. Johnson is listed among the missing and little hope is held for her safety." Couple was survived by a daughter Gloria, age 18. Daughter was reported as still awake late Sunday afternoon from the previous evening, obeying mother's last instruction, "...to wait up until I telephone you" (Worcester Telegram, 11/30/1942). Body was transported to a temporary morgue set up at a vacant garage near the scene, was not identified until Monday at Waterman's Funeral Home, Boston. Was formerly a clerk (as of the 1920 federal census, at age 19) at Heald Machine Co. (boring and grinding machinery), same employer as victims Miss Monica Conlon, age 22, and Boris Lolo, age 25, both of Worcester, and Joseph Ford, age 34, of Southbridge, MA (no other known connection). Was a lifelong Worcester resident. Couple was one of 56 married pairs present to both perish, including 22 parental sets with minors, resulting in 43 children (under the age of 21) being orphaned (plus one child orphaned by the loss of her widowed father, victim Edward "Israel" Loman, age 44). With her husband and their companions were five of 19 claimed from the central Bay State city of Worcester, tied with Cambridge, MA, for the third-most deaths from any single municipality after Boston proper (147 victims) and Quincy, MA (24 dead). Late parents Mr. and Mrs. Bernard A. and Ellen "Nellie" (Glennon) Trainor. Burial with her husband at Hope Cemetery, Worcester. Middle name Bernardine.

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