Age 19. 42 Webster Street, North Quincy (Quincy), MA. Born 4/04/1923, in Quincy. Died of burns (death certificate). Secretary at Gilman Brothers, Inc. (wholesale druggists and liquor), Boston. Was known by her middle name Elizabeth, also as "Betty." First name Mary. In a mixed-gender foursome with companion Patrick Keleher, age 24, of West Roxbury (Boston), MA, celebrating the wedding announcement of a second couple, Joseph Crowley, Jr., and Miss Eleanor McCarthy, both age 22, both of West Roxbury, all dead. All but Miss McCarthy attended the season-ending afternoon B.C./Holy Cross college football game at Fenway Park, others were met by the latter in town. Her remains were transported to Northern Mortuary in Boston. Was a graduate of North Quincy High School in 1940. Was single. "Miss Flood, known to her friends as Betty, was a native of Quincy and had lived all her life in this city" (Quincy Patriot Ledger, 11/30/1942). Her lone sibling, an older sister M. Eleanor, age 22 (not present), was engaged at the time to Lieut. Arthur J. McCarthy, U.S. Army (serving in Egypt), an older brother of the above Miss McCarthy (the latter couple never wed). Name was shown as "Mary E. Flood" in published death notices, appeared as "Elizabeth Flood" on her death certificate and on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties. Parents Mrs. Eliza F. (Martin), same address, and the late Mr. Edward L. Flood. Father died in May 1941, was formerly a used car sales manager at North Quincy Garage Co. (d.b.a. "Duggan Bros. Chevrolet"), co-owned by a Grove survivor in another party, Francis "Frank" Duggan, age 46. Burial at Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy (name on her stone reads as "Mary E. Flood"). One of 14 fire victims buried at Mount Wollaston Cemetery, the sixth-greatest final resting grounds for all casualties and third-most at any site outside Boston proper (after Fuller Street collective Jewish cemeteries, in Everett, MA, with 18 dead, and Holy Cross Cemetery, in Malden, MA, 16 dead).

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