Age 24. 74 The Fenway, Boston (note the same street as club cigarette girl and fire victim Miss Shirley "Bunny" Leslie, 38 The Fenway, Boston). Born (as Henry Boguska) on 9/14/1918, in Troy, NY. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Accountant, New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Boston office. Part-time Grove cashier. Was known as William (or "Bill"). Was also known by his middle name Henry (own signature, WWII draft registration card, October '40: "William Warren"). Club chorus girl wife Constance "Connie," age 23 (Born 10/10/1919. Died as Constance G. Calvert on 9/02/2005, age 85. Last residence Palmdale, CA), survived. According to Grove author Paul Benzaquin (in his 1959 book, Holocaust!), Mr. Warren, "...died in a desperate dash across the dining room to save her." His wife escaped unharmed from an upstairs dressing room down back steps through thick smoke to safety on Shawmut Street. Was raised in Troy and Rochester, NY. Attended Syracuse University and Rochester Business Institute. Married in 1940, in Boston. "Warren...changed his name from Henry Boguska when he moved to Boston to marry Constance Garland, an entertainer he met while she was appearing...here" (Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, 12/01/1942). Joined the above railroad in June 1941. Was previously employed at National Cash Register Co., Boston. Recalled online (in November 2012): "My aunt's first husband Henry Warren died in the fire...He worked for NCR and volunteered to cover the register to be with her...My mother, Connie's sister, lived with the grief from that event all her life..." (cocoanutgrovefire.org). Was misidentified in one early news account by phonetic error as "Warren Moran." Alternately spelled his birth surname "Boguska" (as above) or "Boguski" (ending with an "i"). Was tall and thin (WWII draft registration: 6' 0," 160 lbs.). Was one of two New Haven railroad employees dead (also Bernard Leo Galligan, age 26, a patron in a separate party). With his wife was the lone non-patron married couple present where one member died and the other survived. One of two club cashiers (of nine present) to perish (also kitchen service cashier Miss Katherine "Kate" Swett, age 67). Parents Mrs. Catherine (Calska), of Rochester, NY, and the late Mr. Boleslaw "William" Boguska. Father died in 1941. Burial at Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, MA.

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