Age 25. 25 Stockton Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born on 1/20/1917, in Chelsea, MA. Died 11/29/1942 (Sunday), at 3:30 p.m., Boston City Hospital, burns and inhalation of smoke (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Was attending the club with her victim husband Francis "Frank," age 32, in a reported party of five, including two unnamed, "...said to be saved" (The Boston Post, 11/30/1942). Also: "Mr. O'Brien died at the scene, but Mrs. O'Brien...was taken to Boston City Hospital." Expired Sunday afternoon, 17 hours after the blaze. Was raised in Dorchester. Was married in 1939, in Boston. Occupation (1940 federal census): filing clerk, Paragon Park, Nantasket Beach (Hull), MA. Survived by infant sons Francis, Jr., age 18 months, and George, age 5 months. Sons made news three months later: "Judge John V. Mahoney...declined to grant permanent guardianship of [the] two children...until it could be determined what, if any, rights they might have to federal benefits because their father was a Navy Yard worker" (The Boston Herald, 2/25/1943). Children were permitted meanwhile to remain in the joint custody of their maternal grandparents and a paternal aunt. With her husband was one of 56 married couples present to both perish, including 22 pairs with minors, resulting in 43 children (under the age of 21) being orphaned (plus one child orphaned by the loss of her widowed father, victim Edward "Israel" Loman, age 44). Parents Mr. and Mrs. John J. and Helen M. (Furlong) Keenan. Burial with her husband at New Calvary Cemetery, Mattapan (Boston), MA. One of 30 victims interred at New Calvary Cemetery (22 burials) and its adjoining Mount (or "Old") Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale (Boston), MA (8 burials), more than at any other single resting grounds. Middle name Marie.

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