Age 21. 21 Supple Road, Roxbury (Boston), MA. Born 8/08/1921, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). College student (death certificate). Also known by the more standard first-name spelling "Shirley" (spelling shown on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties). Attended the club with companion William Bluestein, age 24, of Lexington, MA, dead, home on furlough following naval aviation training at Waterville, ME. The Boston Evening Globe, 11/30/1942: "Neither came out alive, as Miss Yavner was one of the early ones to be identified. Identification was made by her father..." Her remains were located at Southern Mortuary, Boston. Was single. Was a graduate of Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Dorchester (Boston), MA, in 1939. Graduate of the Leland Powers School, in Boston, where she studied radio dramatics. "Miss Yavner was frequently heard in radio dramas broadcast by [Boston radio] WMEX" (The Boston Evening Globe, 11/30/1942). One of 14 Grove victims from the Hub "neighborhood" of Roxbury (also John Burke, age 34, Mr. and Mrs. Earl and Evelyn Cohen, ages 29 and 27, George Colburn, age 32, Mrs. Helen Daley, age 35, Lester Goldenberg "Gould," age 21, Miss Margaret Graham, age 28, Hyman Horch, age 31, Edward Lennihan, age 20, Mrs. Jennie "Jean" Levy, age 25, Edward Ross, age 27, Miss Rose Shuman, age 31, Lawrence Stone, age 31, and Lawrence Taylor, age 39, all patrons). Parents Dr. Benjamin F. (a dentist) and Mrs. Harriette P. "Hattie" (Goodman) Yavner, same address. Burial in the family lot at Mount Lebanon (Beth El) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. Less-common spelling of her first name "Sherly" was displayed on the stone (which reads, "Her life was a light"). Both first-name spellings appeared alternately in different annual published in memoriam notices beyond WWII. Middle name Pearl.

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