Age 25. Bay Beach Road, Green Bay, WI. Born 8/13/1917, Franklin Township, MI. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Husband Jerome, U.S. Coast Guard, age 28, also perished. A younger sister, Miss Aili Niemi (with whom she lodged in Detroit, MI, not present), informed the 11/30/1942 Detroit News that Mrs. Estes had departed Michigan one week before the blaze to join her husband of five months in Boston. "It is feared that Estes' bride...was with him at the dance hall, but this has not been definitely established..." (The Menasha Record, Menasha & Neenah, WI, 12/01/1942). "Her mother...left Monday morning for Boston on the sad mission of visiting the morgues to identify her daughter's body..." (Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, MI, 12/03/1942). One of three identified fire victims still unclaimed at Boston mortuaries as of the following Wednesday (also rescuer Harold Hawkins, age 46, and Grove coat-check girl Miss Barbara O'Brien, age 26). Was raised in Hancock, MI. Was a graduate of Northern High School, Flint, MI, in 1933. Married on 6/20/1942, in Alpena, MI. Resided with the above sister the past two years while her husband served. INS wire article, 5/23/1943: "The search for missing heirs...was not without complications or incidents of grim humor. In one case, a marmink coat was identified by a loophole mended with bits of twisted shoelacing and twine. The wrap belonged to Mrs. Jerome Estes of Detroit..." Address shown on the 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety casualties list (118 Chandler Street, Boston) was that of a local lodging house. With her husband was subject of perhaps the ultimate of ironies: as victims of the worst night club fire ever were both buried some 1,200 miles away in Peshtigo, WI, site of the deadliest wildfire in Western Hemisphere history (in 1871), over 2,000 dead (exact count was never established). Parents Mr. and Mrs. William and Lempi S. (Malgren) Niemi. Burial with her husband at Riverside Cemetery, Peshtigo, WI. Middle name Marie.

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