
Age 24. 85 Chester Avenue, Chelsea, MA. Born (surname Rubchansky) on 4/10/1918, Stavistch, Russia. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Bookkeeper at the grocery store of her brother, Joseph Rubin (not present), in Roxbury (Boston), MA. Was at a U.S. Army send-off for Joseph Seidman, age 30, with Edward Fogel, age 34, both of Cambridge, MA, and Miss Adaline Goodman, age 22, of Chelsea. Reported in the 11/30/1942 Chelsea Evening Record all four died by suffocation. To the U.S. in 1923 at age 5. Shown by her popular-usage first name "Minnie" in the 1930 federal census (at age 11) and in the '40 federal census. Had attended Chelsea High School. Was single. The Boston Globe, 6/10/1943: "State Detective William Killen uncovered...yesterday while searching through the ruins of the Cocoanut Grove...a charge account plate in the name of Mrs. Frank Ruboy, 30 Pearl st., Charlestown." The latter (Born 9/09/1910. Died 2/22/1981, age 70. Last residence Hyde Park, MA) was a 32-year-old married older sister of Miss Rubin (confirmed to be not present). Item may have possibly been separated from Miss Rubin during attempted escape (not verified). One of seven victims from the city of Chelsea (also Oscar Gerson, age 34, William Roger Kaufman, age 28, Abraham "Richard" Plager, age 34, Bernard Supowitz, age 36, Myer Weisman, age 40, and the above Miss Goodman). Parents Mrs. Lena M. (Leavitt), same address, and the late Mr. Morris Rubin (formerly "Rubchansky"). Burial at Lynn Jewish (Chevra Mishna) Cemeteries, Lynn, MA. Was one of two Grove casualties interred at the above collective Jewish cemeteries (also patron Jacob George Herman, age 39).