Bobby Sollenberger

Robert Lamar "Bobby" Sollenberger, 16, Barnesville, Georgia. Room 1126. Youth Assembly delegate. Junior at Milner High School. Member of the basketball team and debate club.

Bill Cochran

 

Bill Cochran, 47, Miami , Florida, Room 1006. Plymouth salesman in Coral Gables. Visiting friends in Atlanta. Wife, Jake, survived the fire.

Freda & Joseph Constangy

Freda Minkow Constangy, 26 & Joseph Constangy, 28, Atlanta, Ga. Room 1222. Staying at Winecoff until utilities turned on and furniture delivered at recently rented apartment. Joe, an army veteran, had recently bought Sims Five and Ten Cent Store. Freda was three months pregnant at the time of the fire.

Frank Jones

Willard Franklin Jones, 21. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Room 818. Clerk typist for U.S. government's Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge. Came to Atlanta for the weekend with a co-worker.

Margaret Parker

Margaret Parker, 12, Montgomery, Alabama. Room 1604. Pictured here with her mother who survived the fire. They were in Atlanta to shop.

A.J. Burns

Ashley John Burns, 26, Ossining, New York, Room 1416. Grandson of founder of Burns Detective Agency.

Jimmy McDonald

Jimmy McDonald, 39, Memphis, Tennessee. Room 1624. CPA for Federal Public Housing Authority. Stationed in Atlanta but traveled throughout the Southeast. Wrote home to wife and daughter in Memphis every day.

Bill Berry

Charles Billy Berry, 25, Cedartown, Georgia. Room 1626. Former Marine. Survived Guadacanal. Avid bowler. Bartenter at Jack Sheriff's Theater Restaurant, next to the Winecoff Hotel.

Morris Constangy

Annie and Morris Constangy

Morris Theo Constangy, 55, Atlanta, Georgia. Room 1528. Father of victim Joseph Constangy. Son of Russian immigrants. Co-owner of dress factory. Moved into the Winecoff Hotel permanently in September. Wife, Annie May, survived the fire. 

Charles & Bess Thruen

Charles H. Thruen, 51 and Bess Mitchell Thruen, 51. Columbus, Georgia. Room 1526. Husband and wife. Charles Thruen was a civilian clerk in the salvage office at Ft. Benning, Ga. He had recently retired from the Army after 28 years of service.

Bill Dickerson

Bill Dickerson, 3, Douglas, Georgia, Room 1630. Son of Will and Mary Dickerson.

Mary Melinda Dickerson

Mary Melinda at 5 months old

Mary Melinda Dickerson, 6, Douglas, Georgia, Room 1630. Daughter of Will and Mary Dickerson. Had started first grade in September.

Mary Pettit Dickerson

Mary Pettit Dickerson, 34. Douglas, Georgia. Room 1630. Supervised government-run nursery during World War II. Attended Florida State College for Women. Spending weekend with her husband while awaiting completion of new home. Her entire family of four perished in the fire.

Harold Irvin

Harold Garnett Irvin, 23. Cornelia, Georgia. Room 830. Torpedo bomber pilot in Pacific during World War II. Stopped in Atlanta to visit friends and celebrate recent Navy discharge. About to start job as Eastern Airlines pilot.

Wylie Rochelle

Wylie L. Rochelle, 46. Marietta, Georgia. Room 1106. Traveling salesman for the Sonnebarn Paint Company. He loved to go to Georgia Tech football games and Atlanta Crackers baseball games. Photo circa 1922.

Edith Burch

Edith Duckworth Burch, 20. Chattanooga, Tennessee. Room 1008. Married eight months. On "second honeymoon" weekend. Native of Cumberland, Kentucky. Husband, George, survived the fire.

Walton Beck

Walton W. Beck, 47, Jacksonville, Florida. Room 1226. Owner of Beck Oil and Equipment Company. In Atlanta on business. Spent the week at the Winecoff Hotel.

Helen Walker

Helen Teach Walker, 31, Atlanta, Georgia, Room 528. Winecoff Hotel auditor. Vice-president of the Women's Chamber of Commerce. Scheduled to graduate from Atlanta Law School in five days and go to work for a judge in Metter, Georgia.

Joe Goodson

Joseph Arthur Goodson Jr., 35, Clay City, Illinois. Suite 1202-1204. Geologist for Pure Oil Company. Graduate of University of Kentucky. In route to Florida to recover from pneumonia. Husband of Gladys Goodson.

Gladys Goodson

Gladys Carlson Goodson, 29, Clay City, Illinois. Suite 1202-1204. Native of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Met husband when he was Gulf Oil scout there. Had reservations at another hotel but the room was given to someone else.