Age 25. 1611 Park Road, Washington, DC. Born on 4/19/1917, in Sheridan, WY. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Civilian clerk, Bureau of Ships, U.S. Navy Department, Washington, DC. At the club with fellow 1940 Tufts College graduates Joseph Dineen, age 23, of Winchester, MA, and Norman Paré, age 25, of Medford, MA, both dead. A third Tufts classmate, S. James Occhipinti, U.S. Army, age 24 (Born 4/06/1918. Died 3/28/2004, age 85. Last residence Clarksburg, MD), of Medford, departed late from Camp Devens and did not attend. His remains were located at Waterman's Funeral Home, Boston. Wife former Elizabeth M. "Betty" Qualter, age 21 (Born 8/18/1921. Died as Elizabeth Q. Keating on 9/03/1982, Wareham, MA, age 61), married on 1/02/1942, was not present. Had moved to Washington (with his wife) to serve as a non-enlisted junior engineer in the architecture division of the naval battery section. Couple was spending the Thanksgiving holidays with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Qualter, of Stoneham, MA. Came from Wyoming to Marblehead, MA, in youth (his father was a Massachusetts-born stock rancher in Parkman, WY). Was a graduate of Winchester High School in 1935. Graduate of Tufts College in 1940. Slight build (WWII draft registration, October '40: 5' 8," 140 lbs.). Employed at Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., Boston, as of his WWII draft registration (the same employer as fire victim Miss Katherine "Kay" Holland, age 32, no other known connection). Was the lone fire casualty omitted from the final published 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of Grove deaths, error apparently clerical in nature as his name appeared on the annotated working drafts (which have survived). Omission resulted in a total of 489 Grove victims listed instead of the titled (and correct) count of 490 (and helped fuel decades of confusion concerning the actual death tally). Divorced parents Mrs. Anna C. (Shillaber), of Winchester, and Mr. George W. Meserve. Burial at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Stoneham. Middle name Shillaber.

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