Victims in the Flight 93 crash

Victims of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed near Shanksville, en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, on Sept. 11, 2001:



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• Lorraine G. Bay, 58, East Windsor, N.J., flight attendant. A 37-year United veteran, she had chosen Flight 93 over another flight because it was nonstop. Married for 22 years and remembered for her thoughtfulness, whether lavishing candy on friends’ children or making hats for a friend undergoing chemotherapy. Two ill colleagues received “get well” cards after her death that were postmarked Sept. 11, indicating that she had probably dropped them in the mail that morning from the airport.

• Sandra W. Bradshaw, 38, Greensboro, N.C., flight attendant. A mother of three and married for 11 years to US Airways pilot Phil Bradshaw, whom she called after the plane was hijacked. She told her husband that she and other flight attendants were boiling water to toss on the hijackers.

n Jason Dahl, 43, Denver, Colo., captain. Dahl had a lifelong interest in flying, said his aunt, Maxine Atkinson, of Waterloo, Iowa. “Our belief will always be that Jason and the other co-pilots somehow realized the situation and took the plane down, taking those lives to save other lives,” she said. “He always said if it came to a situation like that, he would give his life to save others. That’s just the way he operated.”

• Wanda Anita Green, 49, Linden, N.J., flight attendant. Mother of two college-age children and a native of Oakland, Calif., she was living her childhood dream of becoming a flight attendant, relatives said. She also earned a real-estate license and planned to retire from United in a year or two, then open her own real-estate office. She was a deacon at Linden Presbyterian Church and volunteered with church, school and community groups.

• LeRoy Wilton Homer Jr., 36, Marlton, N.J., first officer. Homer and his wife Melodie had celebrated the birth of his first child, a daughter, in October 2000. He was a 1987 graduate of the Air Force Academy and an Air Force Reserve captain. He was based at JFK Airport in New York. “He was one of the happiest guys you'd ever know,” said Steve Byers, an academy classmate of Homer’s and a resident of Fort Collins. “He was always optimistic. He was perpetually happy.”

• CeeCee Lyles, 33, Fort Myers, Fla., flight attendant. She was a former Fort Pierce police officer who changed careers nine months before the terrorist attacks, becoming a United Airlines flight attendant with the hopes of seeing the world. When hijackers took over her plane, she used a cell phone to call her husband, Fort Myers police officer Lorne Lyles, to tell him she loved him and their four boys. “She just told me that she loved me, tell the boys that she loves them and she hopes that she'd see our faces again ... I went crazy because we got disconnected with her screaming.”

• Deborah Anne Jacobs Welsh, 49, New York, N.Y., flight attendant. Relatives dubbed her “The Little Apostle of the Airlines” after discovering that she often left Newark airport with a stack of unused airline meals to hand out to homeless people on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, her tough New York City neighborhood. She was not originally slated to be on Flight 93 but was assigned to the flight when she swapped shifts. A native of Darby, Pa., she was among the original Flyerette hostesses for Philadelphia Flyers hockey games.



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• Christian Adams, 37, Biebelsheim, Germany, deputy director of the German Wine Institute. He flew to the United States for two vintage German wine tastings. He was a sales manager for the German Wine Fund of Biebelsheim. Adams and his wife’s family owned a small winery, which colleagues say made it difficult for Adams to make the trip because it was nearing winemaking season in Germany. Adams also is survived by his two children.

n Todd Beamer, 32, Cranbury, N.J., account manager, Oracle Corp. Believed to have been one of the leaders of an attack on the hijackers that prevented the plane from continuing to its intended target, possibly the White House. He spoke to a GTE operator on the plane’s phone before dropping the line, though his final words were heard as, “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll.” Survived by his wife, Lisa, and three children, including a child born after his death.

• Alan Beaven, 48, Hurleyville, N.Y., environmental lawyer. Born in New Zealand, Beaven had a diverse legal career on four continents. In England, he was a law professor at Kings College, a private defense attorney and a lead prosecutor for Scotland Yard. He practiced in Portugal, Hong Kong and New York before forming a firm in San Francisco. Law partner Joe Tabacco said: “Alan was an environmental champion whose numerous successful prosecutions have markedly improved water quality throughout California. The environmental bar has lost one of its brightest stars.” He left a wife, Kimi, and three children.

• Mark K. Bingham, 31, San Francisco, Calif., owner, The Bingham Group. A 6-foot-5 rugby player, founder of a successful public relations firm and world traveler who ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, Bingham called his mother, flight attendant Alice Hoglan, from the hijacked plane telling her he and several other passengers were planning to fight back. Bingham, who was gay, has also become a symbol of inspiration to the nation’s gay community.

• Deora Frances Bodley, 20, San Diego, Calif., student, Santa Clara (Calif.) University. Her parents, Derrill Bodley and Deborah Borza, said their daughter promoted peace and would not have wanted to hear talk of war following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Bodley tutored elementary school students in reading, and had been visiting friends on the East Coast and was given a standby ticket prior to the flight on which she was booked to fly. She was about to begin her junior year at Santa Clara University.

• Marion Britton, 53, New York, N.Y., assistant regional director, U.S. Census Bureau. She grew up in Queens and worked as an accountant before becoming a door-to-door questioner, for the 1980 census. She loved getting paid to talk to people, and over the next 21 years, she rose to the second-highest spot in the Census Bureau’s Manhattan office.

• Thomas E. Burnett Jr., 38, San Ramon, Calif., senior vice president and chief operating officer, Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company. During the hijacking, Burnett called his wife, Deena, to tell her about the hijacking and say he and some other passengers were “going to do something about it.” The plane crashed soon afterward. Burnett’s widow and parents, who have heard the cockpit recording, say they’re sure he was a leader of the rebellion.

• William Joseph Cashman, 60, West New York, N.J., construction worker. He worked as an ironworker and construction worker and served in the early 1960s as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, known as the Screaming Eagles. Though he had a tough-guy image, Cashman taught welding at night at the Metal Lathers Local 46 school, part of his philosophy of giving back to the union and helping young apprentices.

• Georgine Rose Corrigan, 56, Honolulu, Hawaii, antiques and collectibles dealer. Corrigan’s daughter, Laura Brough, said her mother had originally been scheduled to fly through Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco, before continuing on to Hawaii. She had boarded Flight 93 in an effort to get home sooner. Corrigan was returning from a buying trip.

• Patricia Cushing, 69, Bayonne, N.J., retiree. She took her first flight on a commercial airplane Sept. 11 on United Flight 93. “She’s been talking about this trip for a year,” said her nephew, Steve Hasenei. “She’s never been outside the East Coast.” Cushing had planned to go to San Francisco. She was a retired service representative for Verizon Communications.

• Joseph Deluca, 52, Ledgewood, N.J., systems business consultant, Pfizer Inc. He had a sleek yellow Morgan roadster that was his pride and joy. The Morgan sports car owners’ group he belonged to posted a picture of the car on its Web site in honor of DeLuca. His sister, Carol Hughes, said DeLuca could have been an artist. During the holidays, DeLuca would send cards with original sketches to family and friends.

• Patrick “Joe” Driscoll, 70, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., retired research director, Bell Communications. A Korean War veteran and Columbia University graduate, he was also an active outdoorsman, climbing mountains, snowmobiling and hiking. Since his retirement in 1992, he made 10 trips to his ancestral Irish homeland despite a triple bypass heart surgery in 1993 derail him and a hip replacement in 1998.

• Edward P. Felt, 41, Matawan, N.J., technology director, BEA Systems. He was “a man of peace,” said his wife, Sandra Valdez Felt. "He didn't approve of violence. He didn't even like cursing," she said. Felt was on a last-minute business trip to San Francisco. In addition to his wife, he left behind two daughters. “He was devoted to his church and to his children and to me,” his wife said.

• Jane C. Folger, 73, Bayonne, N.J., retiree. She was traveling with her late brother's wife, Patricia Cushing, on Flight 93. A mother of six, she lost one son in Vietnam and another to AIDS in 1994. When her children were old enough, Folger went to work. A high school graduate, she started at the bottom of the ladder as a bank teller; 25 years later, in 1994, she retired as a bank officer.

• Colleen Laura Fraser, 51, Elizabeth, N.J., chairwoman, New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council. She was born with a condition that made her legs grow deformed and had more than 30 painful operations to straighten them. She later drew on her experiences to become a leading advocate in New Jersey for people with disabilities. Fraser was the former chair and current vice-chairwoman of the New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council when she died. “She had always been a strong voice for the proposition that people with disabilities should speak for themselves and not be spoken for,” said Ethan Ellis, director of the council.

• Andrew Garcia, 62, Portola Valley, Calif., salesman. He was returning from a meeting in New Jersey aboard United Flight 93. Garcia worked for United Airlines as a purchasing agent in the 1960s, according to his son, Andrew Garcia Jr. The younger Garcia said his father had been looking forward to the birth of a grandson. “His biggest thing was helping people, caring for people,” Andrew Garcia Jr. said. The elder Garcia was survived by his wife, Dorothy, and son.

• Jeremy Glick, 31, Hewlett, N.J. He managed to telephone his wife, Lyz, after terrorists took over United Flight 93. Glick’s wife patched the call to a 911 dispatcher, who told Glick about earlier attacks in New York. Glick’s sister, Jennifer, said she believed her brother and some other passengers stormed the hijackers and got into the cockpit. Glick, a University of Rochester graduate, was a national collegiate judo champion. He was survived by his wife, a daughter, his parents and five siblings.

• Lauren Grandcolas, 38, San Rafael, Calif., sales worker, Good Housekeeping magazine. Neighbors said Grandcolas often was seen racing through the hills of her neighborhood on inline skates. “She was just a very, very kind and loving person who enjoyed life,” said Mark Grandcolas, her brother-in-law. Grandcolas was flying back from her grandmother's funeral in New Jersey. She was survived by her husband, Jack Grandcolas.

• Donald F. Greene, 47, Greenwich, Conn., executive vice president, Safe Flight Instrument Corp. A 1971 engineering graduate from Brown University, Greene worked several jobs before earning a business degree. It was then that his father recruited him to his company, Safe Flight, seeking his expertise as a business administrator and negotiator. Relatives said Greene was charming, down to earth and a devoted father. He was survived by his wife, Claudette, and two children.

• Linda Gronlund, 46, Greenwood Lake, N.Y., environmental compliance, BMW. She went to college to be an oceanographer, but it was her love of cars that ultimately determined her career path. She was traveling with fellow car-lover Joe DeLuca aboard Flight 93; the two were planning a tour of California vineyards to celebrate Gronlund’s 47th birthday, which would have been Sept. 13.

n Richard Jerry Guadagno, 39, Eureka, Calif., U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manager, Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. He worked for the federal government for 17 years at wildlife reserves in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Oregon. Anne Badgley, director of the agency's Pacific Region, described Guadagno as “one of our finest managers.” He was survived by his parents and a sister.

• Toshiya Kuge, 20, Nishimidoriguoska, Japan, student. His late-summer vacation to the United States was to be part recreation and part preparation for his goal of obtaining a graduate degree from an American university. He was on his way back to college in Japan when he boarded Flight 93. His mother traveled to the Somerset County crash site and left a Japanese flag and intricate origami birds there in his honor.

• Hilda Marcin, 79, Budd Lake, N.J., retired teacher’s aide. She liked to do things for her daughter Elizabeth Kemmerer, who lived just down the street. “I’d come home and she’d be there and she’d say, ‘I vacuumed, I dusted, I washed the floor and, by the way, there’s a meat loaf in the oven.’ That’s just how she was,” Kemmerer said. Marcin was headed to California to spend the winter with her other daughter. Marcin immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1929.

• Waleska Martinez Rivera, 37, Jersey City, N.J., automation specialist, U.S. Census Bureau. “She was well known with the Census Bureau, mostly because she was so helpful and so responsible,” said Angela Lopez, her roommate. She was the automation supervisor for the New York region for the 2000 Census. Martinez was a native of Santurce, Puerto Rico, and moved to Jersey City in 1987.

• Nicole Miller, 21, San Jose, Calif., student, West Valley College. She was a sophomore on the dean's list at the college in Saratoga, Calif., where she focused her studies in nutrition and physical therapy. She dreamed of becoming a pilot, but poor eyesight caused her to rethink her career goals. She boarded Flight 93 to return home after a trip on the East Coast.

• Louis J. Nacke, 42, New Hope, Pa., distribution center director, Kay-Bee Toys. He was aboard United Flight 93 on business. Nacke and his wife, Amy, were married September 2000. They were living with her parents awaiting the completion of their new home near New Hope. An avid weightlifter, he graduated from Ohio State University, and had two teenage sons from a previous marriage. “He was the kind of guy that everybody liked instantly. Very outgoing, very forward, and proactive,” his father-in-law, Robert Weisberg, said. “He was a warm, smiling individual who jumped right into every situation, positive and negative, a guy who couldn't do enough for you.”

• Donald Arthur Peterson, 66, Spring Lake, N.J., retired president, Continental Electric Co. He was with his wife, Jean, on Flight 93. Donald Peterson was an electrical engineer who was president of Continental Electric Co. in Newark before retiring. Jim Loveland, the church's pastor, said the Petersons spent their time helping others, especially children.

• Jean Hoadley Peterson, 55, Spring Lake, N.J. She held degrees in nursing and education, was deeply involved in activities at her church, Community Baptist Church in Neptune. Donald and Jean Peterson were survived by six children.

• Mark “Mickey” Rothenberg, 52, Scotch Plains, N.J., owner, MDR Global Resources. Since graduating from Franklin & Marshall College in 1970, Rothenberg had worked with his father in their Brooklyn, N.Y., glassware company, becoming the chief salesman before taking over the business. He was en route to Taiwan on business when his flight was hijacked. Meredith Rothenberg said she could not understand why her husband, who lived by the phone, didn't call her from the plane. Survived by his wife and two daughters.

• Christine Anne Snyder, 32, Kailua, Hawaii, arborist, Outdoor Circle. She had been on the mainland to attend the American Forestry Conference in Washington, D.C. "She was totally committed to preserving the beauty of these islands and worked passionately to convince those who didn't understand the importance of that goal," said Alan Fujimori, Outdoor Circle vice president. Snyder had worked to plant coconut palms and wiliwili trees on Magic Island.

• John Talignani, 74, New York, N.Y., retired restaurant worker. The longtime New Yorker was traveling west to help make funeral arrangements for a stepson, Allen Zykofky, who had just died in a car wreck. Talignani was born in Italy and emigrated to the United States as a boy. He worked for a time as a taxi driver, then had a long career working various jobs at the Palm Restaurant in New York. After he retired he became a "whiz at the computer," cousin Robert Talignani said, sometimes cruising the Internet for information on his family's entrance into the United States through Ellis Island.

ª Honor Elizabeth Wainio, 27, Baltimore, Md., district manager, Discovery Channel stores. She was a district manager in New Jersey for the Discovery Channel's retail stores. She was traveling on United Flight 93 to attend a meeting in San Francisco. Wainio had just returned from a two-week trip to Europe, where she went to the wedding of longtime friends in Florence, Italy. She also visited another friend in Paris. She told her stepmother, Esther Heymann, that the trip was fabulous. “She said, ‘After Paris, what else could there be?’ ” Heymann said.

• Olga Kristin Gould White, 65, New York, N.Y., free-lance medical journalist. Friends said White's passion was people – whether they were the ancient Greeks, neighbors near her brownstone on New York's Upper West Side or the medical pioneers she interviewed during her more than 30 years as a free-lance writer. She was aboard Flight 93 to visit friends in California. She was survived by a daughter, Allison Vadhan.

Sources: Associated Press archives, Association of Flight Attendants, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Sacramento Bee, The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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