Age 57. 21 Merrymount Road, Quincy, MA. Born 7/29/1885, in Salemi, Italy. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Co-owner, Caradonna Bros., produce store and Greyhound bus terminal, 1281 Hancock Street, Quincy. One of five dead in a main dining room party of seven, including his 42-year-old wife Teresa "Jeanne." "Tragedy wrote conclusion to the first 'holiday' Vito Caradonna...well-known Quincy produce merchant, and his wife...took in more than 10 years, Saturday night, when they went to the Cocoanut Grove..." (The Boston Post, 11/30/1942). Also: "The body of Mr. Caradonna, who operated a produce store with his brother in Quincy square for more than 20 years, was one of the first taken from the building." Quincy Patriot Ledger, 12/03/1942: "Only a few days ago Mr. Caradonna had told friends that he had worked hard all his life...and that he had decided that he and his wife, who had worked devotedly by his side down through the years, should begin enjoying themselves a bit." One of 60 "probable identifications" inventoried Sunday morning by Boston City Hospital at Southern Mortuary in Boston (all male). To the U.S. in 1903. Married in 1931, in Boston. Couple had no children. Estates of both victims filed claims for $29,000 each against New Cocoanut Grove, Inc., in August 1943 (Quincy Patriot Ledger, 8/11/1943: "They allege that the defendant corporation negligently controlled the premises and allowed them to be in a dangerous condition..."). Was the fourth-oldest patron casualty (after Isaac Gordon, age 61, party companion Dominic Penardi, age 59, and Harry Asher, age 57) and fifth-oldest Grove fatality overall (also Grove service cashier Miss Katherine "Kate" Swett, age 67). Parents Sig. e Sig.ra. Pietro A. and Antonina (Cucchiara) Caradonna, of Italy. Burial with his wife at Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree, MA.

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