Age 21. 14 Clearview Avenue, Stoneham, MA. Born (as Pauline Robinson Finnegan) on 4/03/1921, in Winchester, MA. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Winder in the motor department, General Electric Co., River Works, Lynn, MA. Had attended a dinner in an unnamed group at the Parker House hotel in Boston. With her coworker Miss Audrey Flynn, age 21 (Born 4/14/1921. Died 3/29/2013, age 91. Last residence Palm Beach, FL. Never married), of Lynn, stopped in at the Grove for a glimpse of the floor show en route to a formal dance at the nearby Hotel Statler. When the fire broke: "Miss Flynn fainted and was thrown out a window of the Cocoanut Grove by three sailors in a rescue party" (Daily Evening Item, Lynn, 11/30/1942). Was single. Was a graduate of Stoneham High School in 1939. "Miss Finnegan...was thoroughly liked and respected by her many classmates and friends" (Stoneham Press, 12/04/1942). Her mother on December 4 claimed at Police Headquarters, "...an expensive fur coat, practically untouched by the flames" (The Boston Post, 12/05/1942). Was a lifelong Stoneham resident, one of two victims from the northern Boston suburb (also Miss G. Virginia McLaughlin, age 19, a patron in a separate party). Was one of 228 claimed showing "burns" as the primary cause of death on their death certificates, another 228 (exact) were recorded dead by "carbon monoxide poisoning" (eight others were listed with both causes). Middle name was shown as "Robinson" on her birth certificate, middle initial "E." in death notices and on her death certificate. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. and Emma P. (Robinson) Finnegan, same address. Burial in the family lot at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Stoneham.

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