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Cocoanut Grove Fire Survivor Dies At Age 90

May 29, 2017

The recent resident of Keene, New Hampshire was 15 when she went with her parents, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s parents to the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in the Bay Village neighborhood of Boston after a Boston College-Holy Cross football game at Fenway Park on November 28, 1942. Her parents, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s father were among the 492 people who died in the fire that night.