Age 27. 19 Browning Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born on 1/05/1915, in Plymouth, MA. Died of burns (death certificate). Machinist's helper, U.S. Navy Yard, Boston. Attended the Grove with his wife Alice, age 23, and her unmarried older brother Monty Shanker, age 27, all same address, all dead. His remains were identified (with those of his wife) at Northern Mortuary, Boston. Was raised in Plymouth and Methuen, MA. Occupation ('39 street listings): "baker." Conducted his own business, Nu-Way Brush Co., 56 Westmore Street, Mattapan (Boston), MA, as of his October '40 WWII draft registration. At 5' 11," 235 lbs. (WWII draft registration) was the third-heaviest male victim of the blaze (after bartender William "Bubbles" Shea, 300+ lbs., and patron Arthur Broderick, 270 lbs.), among those with known WWII draft registrations (includes nearly all men present except those already in military service or born starting in 1925). With his wife were two of 147 Grove fire victims from the city of Boston proper (and its 23 "neighborhoods" including Dorchester), by far the most deaths from any single municipality (the south shore city of Quincy, MA, was next with 24 dead). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. and Pauline (Gershove) Resnick. Burial with his wife at Mount Lebanon (Lord Rothschild) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. Couple were two of 23 casualties interred at Mount Lebanon collective Jewish cemeteries, the third-most Grove-fire interments after Mount or "Old" Calvary and its connected New Calvary Cemetery (30 burials combined), followed by St. Joseph's Cemetery (24 burials), both also in Boston. Middle name David.

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