Grace Winecoff

Grace Smith Winecoff, 76, Atlanta, Georgia. Suite 1010-12. Wife of the hotel's builder, William Fleming Winecoff. Resident of the hotel for 31 years.

Mildred Boschung

Mildred Chandler Boschung, 23, Cullman, Alabama. Room 1208. Newlywed. Married exactly one week earlier. She was spending her honeymoon in Atlanta. Her husband, Charlie Boschung, survived the fire.

Robert Fluker

Robert Alvin Fluker, 41, Thomson, Ga. Room 702. Georgia Tech Graduate. Safety engineer for J.A. Jones Construction Co. Stopped in Atlanta for a dentist appointment before going overseas to rebuild Okinawa air base.

Sara Miller

Sara Baggett Miller, 34, Gordon, Ga. Suite 1108-1110-1112. Widow and mother of two children. Made bags for kaolin mining company. Came to Atlanta to shop with sister, Catherine McLaughlin, who survived the fire.

Irene Justice

Irene Delores Justice, 27, East Point, Ga. Room 624. Pictured here in 1934. Worked for firm in nearby Candler Building and attended law school at night.

Florence Baggett

Florence Allen Baggett, 43, Claxton, Ga. Room 1110-1112. One of best known auctioneers in Southeast. Came to Atlanta to see doctor about enlarged vocal chords.

William Winecoff

William Fleming Winecoff, 76, Atlanta, Ga. Suite 1010-1012. Built the Winecoff Hotel in 1913. Turned operation over to Robert Meyer chain in 1915. Sold hotel during Depression but continued to live there.

Bill Todd

Willian Barr Todd, 39, Columbia, South Carolina. Room 1214. South Carolina director of Civil Aeronautics Administration. In Atlanta to attend meeting at regional headquarters. Father of daughter born six weeks after the fire.

Anne Smith

Emma Anne Smith, 14, Valdosta, Ga. Room 1502. Overcame 80 percent deafness sufficiently to attend public school. On shopping trip with her mother, who survived the fire.

Ann Walker

Phoebe Ann Walker, 16, Albany, Ga. Room 822 Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Albany High School. President of Bookworm Club.

Marianne Scherle

Marianne Scherle, 16, Albany, Ga. Room 822 Youth Assembly delegate. Assistant editor of the yearbook. President of youth fellowship at church.

Julia Hall

Julia Nell Hall, 16, Albany, Ga. Room 822. Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Albany High School. Student council member. Homeroom president.

John Irwin

John Newton Irwin, 23, Long Island, New York. Room 422. Salesman for the Luxene Corp. Father of three month old baby.

Elmer "Spike" Conzett

Elmer Andrew Conzett, 32, Dubuque, Iowa. Room 1230. Pictured here at age 18. Later became Navy lieutenant commander and war hero. Sank Japanese destroyer at Guadalcanal as dive-bomber pilot. His 1942 Scouting Squadron is pictured here (Conzett kneeling, 2nd from left). In Atlanta on one night stopover while ferrying Navy planes from Norfolk, Virginia to Long Beach, California.

Dr. Irene Tollett

Irene Harris Tollett, 44, Atlanta, Ga. Room 824. Librarian at Russell High School in East Point. Earned Ph.D. in library science in 1942. Spending night with sister, Lena Harris, who was visiting from Tennessee.

Virginia Torbert

Sarah Virginia Torbert, 16. Room 1430. Thomaston, Georgia. Room 1430. Youth Assembly reporter. Senior at R.E. Lee Institute. More here.

Patsy Uphold

Patricia Anne Uphold, 16. Thomaston, Georgia. Room 1430. Youth Assembly observer. Senior at R.E. Lee Institute.

Christy Hinson

Christine Adams Hinson, 16. Room 1430. Thomaston, Georgia. Room 1430. Youth Assembly observer. Senior at R.E. Lee Institute. Scheduled to enter Agnes Scott College in 1947.

Earlyne Adams

Earlyne Adams, 16. Thomaston, Georgia. Room 1430. Youth Assembly Delegate. Senior at R.E. Lee Institute.

Elaine Sullivan

Elizabeth Elaine Sullivan, 20. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Room 1028. Working internship at Davison-Paxon's Department Store. Senior at the University of Alabama. Photo courtesy: Hoole Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Gloria Riemann

Gloria Tess Riemann, 20. Gulfport, Mississippi. Room 728. Working internship at Davison-Paxon's Department Store. Senior at the University of Alabama. Member of the Delta Gamma sorority. Photo courtesy: Hoole Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Jean Pruett

Jean Pruett, 21. Fort Payne, Alabama. Room 1028. Working internship at Rich's. Senior at the University of Alabama. Fifth grade teacher in 1945-46. Photo courtesy: Hoole Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Robbie June Moye

Robbie June Moye, 16. Donalsonville, Ga. Room 930. Youth Assembly delagate. Treasurer of the Seminole High School senior class. Cheerleader.

Peggy Cobb

Martha Harriett Cobb, 21. Fayette, Alabama. Room 828. On internship at Davison-Paxon's. Senior at the University of Alabama. Member of the newspaper staff.

Sarah Aldridge

Sarah Aldridge, 28. Eva, Alabama. Room 1028. Working internship at Rich's. Junior at the University of Alabama. Leader in women's intramurals program. Worked with USO during World War II.
Photo courtesy: Hoole Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Eloise Buck

Eloise Evelyn Buck, 40, St. Louis, Missouri. Room 1124. Graduate of the University of Oregon. Masters degree from Wellesley College in 1929. Vocational counselor for the Katherine Gibbs School, New York. In Atlanta on a speaking tour. More here.

Margaret Nichols

Margaret Wilson Nichols, 30, Atlanta. Room 720. Press agent and hostess at Jack Sheriff's Theater Restaurant, next to the Winecoff. Former Miss Atlanta runner-up. Nicknamed "Lucious".

E. B. Weatherly

Ernest Benedict Weatherly, 63, Cochran, Ga. Room 1026. Macon, Ga. attorney who moved to farm during the Depression and became one of the South's top cattlemen. Former chairman of a federally appointed committee on the beef industry. Father of six children.

Dwight Morrison

Captain Dwight Lane Morrison, 26, Lumpkin, Ga. Room 1026. Pilot of B-26 nicknamed "Tobacco Road" during World War II. Flew sixty-five bombing missions over Europe. In Atlanta looking for a job. Father of a son born two months after the fire. More here.

Ethel Stewart

Ethel Stewart, 20, Ralph, Alabama - Room 1228. Senior at University of Alabama. Working internship at Rich's Department Store. Worked at her father's country store. Engaged to be married in 1947. More here.

Maxine Willis

Betty Maxine Willis, 16, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 920 - Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Bainbridge High School. Recently selected "Miss BHS" candidate. Daring horse rider. Click here for full portrait. More photos are here and here and here.
Full biography at Winecoff in Depth.

Sue Broome

Dorothy Sue Broome, 16, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 920 - Youth Assembly reporter. Voted "Most Popular" by Bainbridge High School senior class. President of the Glee Club. Frequent church soloist. Cheerleader.

Ruth Powell

Ruth Powell, 16, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 920 - Youth Assembly delegate. Bainbridge High School Glee Club member. Selected "Best Mannered" by the senior class.

Mary Alice Davis

Mary Alice Davis, 48, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 926 - Advisor to Youth Assembly delegation from Bainbridge High School. Youth director at First Methodist Church. Graduate of Huntingdon College.

Patsy Griffin

Patricia Ann "Patsy" Griffin, 14, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 926 - Youth Assembly observer. Sophomore at Bainbridge High School. Daughter of Georgia adjutant general - and future governor - Marvin Griffin.

Earl Gragg

Earl Carr Gragg, 14, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 924 - Youth Assembly observer. Sophomore at Bainbridge High School. President of Junior Hi-Y. Pianist for church youth group. Boy Scout.

Clarence Bates

Clarence Floyd Bates, 14, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 924 - Youth Assembly observer. Sophomore at Bainbridge High School. Memmber of school band, basketball team. Boy Scout.

Mary Lou Murphy

Mary Louise Murphy, 14, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 926 - Youth Assembly observer. President of Bainbridge High School sophomore class. More here.

Paul Lain

Paul Douglas Lain, 54, Birmingham, Ala. - Room 1428 - Broker. In Atlanta with wife Grace S. Lain on business. Sold surplus goods through the War Assets Administration. Photo submitted by Bill Wells.

Gertrude Knox

Florence Gertrude Knox, 68, Thomson, Ga. Room 1218
Prominent citizen of Thomson. In Atlanta to undergo treatment by ear specialist.

Peter Knox

Peter S. Knox, 78, Thomson, Ga. Room 1218
One of Thomson's leading citizens. Longtime member of both city council and school board. Retired from successful lumber business.

Will Dickerson

William DeGraffenried Dickerson, 38, Douglas, Ga. - Room 1630
Washington & Lee University Law School graduate. Survived the Battle of the Bulge. Director of unemployment compensation for Georgia's labor department. Perished along with wife Mary, 34 and children Mary Melinda, 6, and Bill, 3.

Clair Williams

Clair Williams, 8, Coldele, Ga. - Room 1520
Daughter of Boisclair Williams. Wanted to come to Atlanta to see the film: Song of the South.

Fred, Mary & Dotsy Smith

Fred Smith 14, Mary Smith, 4, Dotsy Smith, 12, Fitzgerald, Ga. - Room 1530

Dorothy Kiker Smith

Dorothy Kiker Smith, 36, Fitzgerald, Ga. - Room 1530
Former court reporter for Cordele circuit. Came to Atlanta on shopping trip with her sister, Boisclair Williams.
Mary Smith, 4

Boisclair Williams

Boisclair Willimas, 40, Cordele, Ga. - Room 1520
On shopping trip with her sister, Dorothy Kiker Smith.

Bill Bryson

William Edgar Bryson, 28, Asheville, N.C. - Room 928
Bus driver for Smokey Mountain Trailways. Father of two daughters. Former Navy sailor, carried wife Vera's photo during World War II.

Dr. Robert & Billie Cox

Dr. Robert H. Cox, 33, Murphy, NC. - Suite 1002-04
Former staff doctor with TVA at Hiwasse and Fontana dam construction sites. Chairman of hometown's polio fund drive.
Billie Crawford Cox, 31, came to Atlanta to go Christmas shopping and take 3 year-old son Bob to see Santa Claus. Little Bob (also pictured) survived the fire thanks to his father's final & courageous act.

Laura Miranda

Laura Bell Miranda, 36, Atlanta, Ga. Room 826.
Beautician at the Loew's Grand Theater Building across Peachtree Street from the Winecoff Hotel. More here.

Mary Minor

Mary Smith Minor, 31, Thomaston, Ga. - Room 1430
Advisor to Youth Assembly delegation from R.E. Lee Institute. Organized Tri-Hi-Y chapter there in response to student requests. Mother of four year old daughter. More here.