Age 39. 20 Maypole Road, Quincy, MA. Born 5/17/1903, in Quincy. Died of suffocation. Housewife (death certificate). Known by her first name Mary, also as "Hilda" (for her middle name Hildegarde). One of nine dead in a main dining room party of 14 hosted by patron Mr. Ernest Bizzozero (dead) and his wife Marion (survived), both age 40, of Quincy, MA. Husband Francis "Frank," age 46 (Born 10/05/1896. Died 4/30/1978, age 81, Last residence Quincy), escaped. Couple joined an evening cocktail party at the Quincy, MA, home of Mr. and Mrs. Bizzozero, "...after attending the Boston College-Holy Cross football game at Fenway Park..." (Quincy Patriot Ledger, 11/30/1942). Group then continued on to the club, were seated at combined tables near the orchestra stand to the right of the rolling wooden dance floor. Husband stated he pushed his way out, "...thinking his wife had hold of his coat, but found she was missing when he reached the street" (The Boston Globe, 11/30/1942). Her remains were identified at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA. One of 20 names chosen by the Commonwealth as representative victims at the spring 1943 Grove manslaughter trials of brothers Barnett "Barney," age 45, and James Welansky, age 46, also Grove wine steward Jacob "Jack" Goldfine, age 47. Was the first victim name read in Suffolk Superior Court, Boston, upon the 4/10/1943 announcement of 19 guilty verdicts against club owner Barnett Welansky (a 20th charge was dismissed for lack of evidence, due to the suicide leap of fire survivor and potential testimony witness Francis Gatturna, age 31). Married in 1931, in Quincy. Before her marriage was a bookkeeper at Quincy Trust Co., Quincy. Survived by a son, James, age 8. Middle name was misspelled "Hildegard" (with no "e" at the end) on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties. Husband in 1922 co-founded North Quincy Garage Co. (d.b.a. "Duggan Bros. Chevrolet"), of Quincy, later known as the oldest Chevrolet dealership under continuous family management in the U.S. (was sold in 1977 and renamed "Menard Chevrolet," closed in 1981). Husband never remarried, but was reported in his obituary as the "fiancé" of above party co-survivor Marion Bizzozero at the time of his April 1978 death (same in her June 1988 obituary). Parents Mr. and Mrs. John P. and Margaret E. (Haley) O'Brien. Burial at Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy. Her widowed husband was laid to rest at her side.

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