
Age 22. 60 Humphreys Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born 11/11/1920, in Boston. Died on 5/05/1943, at Boston City Hospital, multiple decubitis (pressure bedsores) and burns (death certificate). Dental assistant to a Dr. Albert F. Hickey, of Dorchester (not present). Also a student attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the Grove with escort Ensign H. Gordon Heath, U.S. Navy, age 24, of Statesville, NC, dead. "She told her mother she had rushed from the club, 'burning like a torch,' and that a spectator beat out her flaming clothing with his hands..." (Boston Daily Record, 11/30/1942). Was taken to City Hospital in a cab. Suffered burns to her shoulders, back, hips, thighs, and extremities, and a deep burn on top of her head. Red Cross report, June '43 (under pseudonym name): "Under opiates much of the time, she is too ill to talk, to smile, to cry, to care..." Was the 490th and final Grove fire victim, succumbed 158 days post-blaze (a survivor in another party, Mrs. Helen Gross, age 39, critically injured, was misreported by some sources upon her February 1945 death from natural causes as a belated 491st Grove casualty). Was single. Was a lifelong Boston resident. Last of 82 Grove fire victims (of 490 total) to perish after the actual fire date of November 28, and the third of three to die during calendar year 1943 (also fire-related suicide victim Francis Gatturna, age 31, and bartender William "Bubbles" Shea, age 34). Parents Mrs. Annie A. (Duff), same address, and the late Mr. M. William Atkins. Burial at Mount Hope Cemetery, Mattapan (Boston), MA. One of four Grove casualties interred at the above resting grounds (also Mr. and Mrs. John "Rollie" and Catherine "Kay" McCann, ages 43 and 32, and Miss Madeline Wennerstrand, age 26, patrons). Middle name Eileen.