Gottfried
Mildred Gottfried
(1915 - 1942)

Age 26. 28 Wilcock Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born on 12/18/1915, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning and inhalation of smoke (death certificate). Sales clerk at Jordan Marsh Co. (department store), Boston. Companion (or companions) at the Grove unknown. Her remains were transported to Southern Mortuary in Boston. Was single. Was raised in Boston. As a teen had exhibited hand-wrought jewelry at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. Was living with her parents at the address above as of the '40 federal census (occupation: "bundlegirl [sic], department store"). Was one of 38 to perish from the Dorchester section of Boston, twice the casualty count of any other Hub "neighborhood" (Brighton district was next, with 19 victims). One of 116 never-married female patron victims (also 93 wed, 14 engaged and 4 divorced women guests died, a total of 227 female patron casualties out of 234 women killed overall). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Morris and Fannie (Dreiblatt) Gottfried, same address. Was one of two employees taken from the above well-known Hub retailer (also Francis "Frank" Melvin, Jr., age 26, a watch repairman). Burial at Grove Street (Jewish Benevolent) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. One of ten fire casualties interred at the Grove Street collective Jewish cemeteries (also Miss Lillian Golosov, age 19, Eugene Gross, age 41, Russell Klein, age 24, Mrs. Dorothy Levin, age 24, Mrs. Sadie Levin, age 38, Miss Claire Levine, age 17, Edward "Israel" Loman, age 44, and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore and Adelaide Wasserman, ages 39 and 32, all patrons). In memoriam notice from the "Siegal family" (connection unknown) was published upon the first anniversary of her death in The Boston Herald, 11/28/1943.

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