Age 32. 38 Cottage Street, East Boston (Boston), MA. Born (as Maria Piazza) on 7/31/1910, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Went to the Grove with her unmarried next-door neighbor, Miss Maria DiFilippo, age 28, also of East Boston, dead. Her remains were initially sheltered at a temporary morgue set up in a garage at the scene. Her body was located by her husband Walter S., Sr., age 43 (Born 6/14/1899. Remarried in 1943. Died 12/10/1967, age 68. Last residence Somerville, MA), not present, at Southern Mortuary on Tuesday morning. Husband recognized his "badly burned" wife at first by her outer attire, "...and his identification was made positive through other apparel and jewelry" (Boston Traveler, 12/01/1942). At the mortuary her husband collected a, "...Persian lamb coat which she had worn" (Boston Daily Record, 12/02/1942). Married in 1927, in Boston. Survived by children Walter, Jr., age 12 (Born 6/01/1930. Died 3/22/2017, age 86. Last residence Burlington, MA), and Margaret, age 11 (Born 8/15/1931. Died as Margaret "Peggy" Buckley on 6/10/2022, age 90. Last residence Naples, FL). Sorrowing children were photographed at their home by the Boston Daily Record on Tuesday, and again leaving Thursday funeral services with their father at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, in East Boston. Son Walter was later a longtime Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee in Revere, MA. To the internet (July 2012): "My father lost his mother in the Cocoanut Grove fire. The following day a reporter came to his house and took a picture of him and his sister. It was published the next day..." (cocoanutgrovefire.org). Also: "My father, Walter Zenkin, is 82 years old and it would mean a lot to him to discover this picture...My father continues to shed tears." Parents Mr. and Mrs. Calogero and Margherita (Vaccaro) Piazza. Burial at St. Michael's Cemetery, Forest Hills (Boston), MA. One of seven fire casualties interred at the traditionally Italian St. Michael's Cemetery. Middle name Piazza.

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