Age 42. 21 Nelson Road, Peabody, MA. Born 4/05/1900, in Russia. Died the early morning of 11/30/1942 (Monday), at Mass General Hospital, of burns (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Her husband Joseph, age 43, also perished. Pair had attended the big afternoon Holy Cross collegiate football upset over top-ranked Boston College at Fenway Park in an unnamed party including her husband's younger brother David, age 40. All went home after the contest (including her brother-in-law) except the couple who continued on to the Grove. Case #34 of 39 in a landmark 1943 Mass General Hospital Grove burns study (no history obtained. Arrival: "profound shock, unconscious." Burns: 3rd-degree, face, neck, hands, back, legs, abdomen. Severe inhalation burns. Total 70% of body. Died at 12:50 a.m. on Monday, 26 hours post-fire). "The funeral of both victims was held Tuesday afternoon from their late home...There were over 100 automobiles in the procession headed by [Peabody] Mayor Joseph B. O'Keefe..." (The Peabody Times, 12/04/1942). To the U.S. in 1906. Married in 1923. Was a member of the Red Cross Motor Corps, Peabody chapter. Confusion surrounding her first name: spelled "Mollie" ("ie" at the end) in pre-marriage and in post-'34 street listings, in the 1930 federal census, also in news accounts and on the final November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety official casualty list. Spelled "Molly" ("y" at the end) in street listings starting at her marriage through 1932, on her death certificate, and on her headstone. First name shown as "Mildred" on her marriage certificate and in the '40 federal census (but no other place). The official Boston city Public Safety committee list spelling is used here. Surname (with her husband) was misspelled "Shacktman" (with an added "c") on her death certificate and on the final official Boston Committee on Public Safety master casualties list. Shown (posthumously) as president of her husband's leather business in 1943 Salem, MA, street listings (her late husband was still shown as assistant treasurer). Posthumously included as living at the above address through the '45 Peabody street listings (first-name spelling "Mollie"). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Jacob and Anna "Annie" A. (Cooper) Bazer. Burial with her husband at Peabody Jewish (Maple Hill) Cemeteries, Peabody.

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