Age 30. 91 Stoughton Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born 11/04/1912, in Taunton, MA. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Hairdresser, Jade Beauty Salon, Dorchester. Assistant to shop owner Miss Helen Brough, age 32, same address, also dead. Pair arrived at the Grove about 10 o'clock by taxi. "At her place of employment...it was said that neither she nor Miss Brown [sic] had reported for work" (Taunton Daily Gazette, 11/30/1942). Remains were located at Southern Mortuary in Boston. Was single. Raised in Myricks (Berkley), MA (the same Bristol County village as Gilbert Winslow, age 27, victim in a separate party). Was a graduate of St. Mary's High School, Taunton, 1929. Interesting story of how she came to Boston was revealed decades later by a third-generation offspring: "Mary was raped by her stepfather...and he and her mother made her carry the child to term. Mary gave my grandmother up at the hospital the day of her birth..." Also: "After she gave birth Mary went to Boston to get away from her family, and moved in with Helen and started working with her" (from grandchild Amber L. Gauthier, January 2019). Added: "My mother and I have been searching...but...we've never been able to find a picture." Was erroneously double-listed on early published casualty lists under both her stepfather's and her birth father's surnames (The Boston Herald, 12/12/1942: "After days of checking and cross-checking, the Boston committee on public safety yesterday eliminated duplicate names...Final research revealed that...Mary Travers was actually Mary DeMaura [sic]"). Surname was shown as "Travers" in most news accounts, "DeMoura" on her death certificate and on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety casualties list (spelled correctly). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Antone, Sr., and Mary S. (Travososs) DeMoura. Estranged stepfather Mr. Manuel S. Travers. Burial at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Taunton. Her long-unmarked grave received an elaborate headstone from family descendants in 2017 upon the 75th anniversary of her death.

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