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Following two articles were found at Find-a-Grave
Laura Miranda was 36 years old at the time of the Winecoff Hotel fire that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia in the early morning hours of Saturday December 7, 1946. She was from Atlanta and stayed in room 826. She was a beautician who worked at Al Taylor's Beauty Shop on the third floor of the Loew's Grand Theater Building across Peachtree Street from the Winecoff Hotel. She lived with her sister on Highland Avenue. Saturdays were busy days at work so sometimes she stayed at a downtown hotel rather than having to go back home only to return early the next morning.
Laura had grown up in a large family and had married and had a child at the age of 16 and had divorced by the age of 21. She was unable to support her children so she had to let her ex-husbands family take care of them. At the time of the fire she had recently become a grandmother.
(info taken from The Winecoff Fire by Sam Heys and Allen Goodwin)
From Atlanta Constitution:
Services for Mrs. Laura Miranda, of 1113 Highland Ave., N.E. will be held at 1 p.m. today at Spring Hill, with Dr. Robert W. Burns officiating. Burial will be in West View Cemetery. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. C.E. Whitten, of Atlanta, and Mrs. E.R. Mauldin, of Baltimore, Md; five sisters, two of Atlanta, Mrs. R.D. Kilgore and Mrs. C.A. Barton; and two brothers, J.C. and J.F. Bass, both of Atlanta.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1910 - 1946 (36 years)