January 1, 2009

A Look Back

Some people believe writing obituaries is a morbid job, but in truth, only one line deals with death. The rest of the story focuses on the amazing lives people lead.

Whenever I hear about a death, I ask myself, "Did they live with passion? Did they accomplish great things? Did they touch other people's lives in a positive or negative way? Did they contribute something to the world that was previously missing?" Then, I simply try to tell a good story using the facts at my disposal.

This year, The Blog of Death chronicled the lives of celebrities, criminals, artists, heroes and ordinary people who did extraordinary things. These 10 obituaries were my personal favorites:

* Gemina, the beloved crooked-necked giraffe at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

* Lazare Ponticelli, the last French veteran of World War I.

* Vicki Van Meter, a record-setting young pilot.

* Pippa Bacca, an Italian performance artist.

* Dianne Odell, a children's book author and polio sufferer.

* Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who gave an inspiring final lecture.

* Sandy Allen, the tallest woman in the world.

* Maudie Hopkins, one of the last known widows of a Confederate soldier.

* Dave Freeman, co-author of "100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss."

* Gus, the ugliest dog in the world.

Rest in peace.

December 7, 2008

George M. Docherty

George MacPherson Docherty, a Presbyterian pastor who used the pulpit to get the phrase "under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance, died on Nov. 27. He was 97.

Born in Scotland, Docherty graduated from Glasgow University and completed a three-year pastorate at Aberdeen's North Kirk before immigrating to the United States in 1950. He spent the next 26 years working as a pastor at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington D.C.

In 1952, Docherty's 7-year-old son came home from school and recited the Pledge of Allegiance, which was written in 1892 by Baptist minister Francis Bellamy. Although Docherty wasn't a U.S. citizen, he took offense that God was not acknowledged in the pledge and vowed to do something about it. That year, he gave a sermon at his church, which was located just blocks from the White House, and used the fear of "godless communists" to encourage a change in the pledge's phrasing.

"I could hear little Muscovites recite a similar pledge to their hammer-and-sickle flag with equal solemnity," Docherty once said.

Docherty repeated the sermon on Feb. 7, 1954, after learning President Dwight D. Eisenhower planned to attend his service. The next day, Rep. Charles G. Oakman, R-Mich., introduced a bill to add the phrase "under God" to the pledge. A companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Homer Ferguson, R-Mich. In the midst of the McCarthy era, both pieces of legislation passed and Eisenhower signed the bill on June 14. In the five decades since the religious update, numerous lawsuits have claimed the altered pledge violates the First Amendment's separation of church and state.

Docherty hosted a religious TV program in Washington, D.C., for 22 years, and penned a book of sermons entitled "One Way of Living." His autobiography, "I've Seen the Day," was published in 1984. Docherty also used his position at the church to rail against the Vietnam War and to promote racial equality. He invited the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to preach from his pulpit and even joined King on the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala., in 1965.

Docherty and his family moved back to Scotland in 1976, but returned to America 13 years later. In his final years, he gave guest sermons in Huntington, Pa., and enjoyed playing golf and the violin.

November 29, 2008

Arthur Shawcross

Arthur John Shawcross, a serial killer who terrorized the Rochester, N.Y., area from 1988 to 1990, died on Nov. 10 of a heart attack. He was 63.

Born in Kittery, Maine, and raised in Watertown, N.Y., Shawcross was an awkward child who frequently fought with other children, a practice that earned him a reputation as a bully. He dropped out of high school in the ninth grade, and enlisted in the Army, serving a tour of duty in the Vietnam war.

Upon his return to the states, Shawcross moved back to Watertown. In 1972, he lured Jack Owen Blake, 10, into the woods and sexually assaulted and murdered the boy. Four months later, he raped and killed an 8-year-old girl named Karen Ann Hill. Shawcross later confessed to these slayings, but avoided a life sentence by cutting a deal with the prosecutor. In return for leading police to the bodies and pleading guilty to killing Hill, he would receive a 25-year sentence and no charges for the Blake murder. Shawcross spent 15 years in prison before being released on parole in 1987. The following year, he settled in Rochester, N.Y., and began a killing spree that would earn him the name: "The Genesee River Killer."

From 1988 to 1990, Shawcross murdered 11 women: Patricia Ives, Frances Brown, June Cicero, Darlene Trippi, Anna Marie Steffen, Dorothy Blackburn, Kimberly Logan, June Stotts, Marie Welch, Elizabeth Gibson and Dorothy Keller. Most of his victims were strangled and beaten to death; several were also mutilated, their body parts consumed. The press gave Shawcross the ominous moniker because most of the women's bodies were dumped near the Genesee River.

With the assistance of several FBI profilers and experts, the police set up surveillance on the body of the final victim and caught Shawcross hanging out near the dump site. He confessed to the killing spree while in custody, telling police he was "takin' care of business," but later pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

During the 13-week televised trial, the defense offered testimony from psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis that claimed Shawcross suffered from multiple personality disorder, brain damage and post-traumatic stress disorder. The jury didn't buy the argument and found him guilty and sane after only 6 1/2 hours of deliberations. He was sentenced to 250 years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever handed down in New York state.

Shawcross' crimes were chronicled in the 1992 book "Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer" by Joel Norris, which included a recording of his confession, and in the 1993 book, "The Misbegotten Son" by Jack Olsen. He was also featured in several programs dealing with serial killers as well as the 2003 HBO documentary, "Cannibal: The Real Hannibal Lecters."

While behind bars, Shawcross married and later divorced Clara D. Neal. He also reconnected with his only daughter, Margaret Deming of Brooklyn, N.Y., and began painting portraits that were included in an annual inmate art show at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, N.Y. The "Corrections on Canvas" show, which had been staged for 35 years, was discontinued in 2002, after the public protested that Shawcross was profiting from the sale of his pictures.

November 12, 2008

Gus

Gus had three legs, one eye, few teeth, little hair and a face only a mother could love. But he caused a worldwide sensation when he won the 20th annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest last summer.

The pink and black Chinese crested was neglected as a pup; his previous owner kept him crate-bound inside a dark garage. When the Teed family of Gulfport, Fla., learned of his living conditions, they adopted him as one of their own.

Chinese crested dogs do not originate from China. The breed actually hails from the Crest Haven Kennel in America. These canines come in two varieties: Hairless and Powderpuff, but hairlessness is the dominant trait.

Gus, however, was no powderpuff. A skin tumor cost him his left hind leg, and a fight with a feline took his left eye. Despite these infirmities, his favorite activities included lounging on the couch, growling at the cat that scratched his eye out and eating pizza and french fries.

Twelve dogs vied for the title of the World's Ugliest Dog last June, but Gus took the top prize in the contest, a hugely popular event at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. He won two trophies and $1,600 in prize money, which Jeanenne Teed used to pay for his skin cancer treatment.

"I have never really thought of him as ugly, and even now, looking at the videos, I feel like he must have bamboozled the judges," Teed said.

Winning the contest put Gus squarely in the public eye. He made numerous media appearances, including "The Early Show" on CBS, "The Today Show" on NBC and "The Howard Stern Show." Animal Planet plans to air footage of Gus next October.

When the cancer wrapped around Gus' spine and began pressing against his abdomen, his family knew the end was near. Gus was euthanized on Nov. 10 at the age of 9. The Teeds buried him in their backyard and covered his grave with a Butterfly bush with golden flowers.

October 31, 2008

Congratulations!

An epitaph is an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there. It's also a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person. For The Final Farewell Contest, we asked our readers to give us their preferred epitaphs in 25 words or less.

This year's winners are:

Gloria Brownstein:
Here lies Gloria. She sang opera (not Laura Branigan songs).

Barb Wilson:
I was beholden to no one but myself. Then I died. Who wants to beholden me now?

Jennifer Colton:
She read as many books as she could.

James Dunston:
I loved well. I danced often. I traveled much. I died old. Life was good.

Michael Sanchez:
I'm dead. It's great. There's no pain, no taxes and no political ads.

Each winner will receive:

* "I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs" by Nigel Rees
* Two coffin nails
* Epitaph published on The Blog of Death

Congratulations! You will all be remembered forever.

September 29, 2008

The Final Farewell Contest

EPITAPH

Definition:
1. [n] an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there
2. [n] a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person

Famous Examples:

That's All Folks
Mel Blanc
Man of 1,000 Voices
Beloved Husband and Father
1908-1989

Jefferson Davis
At Rest
An American Soldier
And Defender of the Constitution
(1808-1889)

Jesse James
Died April 3, 1882
Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days
Murdered by a traitor and a coward
whose name is not worthy
to appear here.

Dean Martin
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime

Edgar Allan Poe
Quoth the Raven nevermore.

To enter The Final Farewell Contest, write an epitaph in 30 words or less. Paste the epitaph in the body of an e-mail, along with your name, mailing address and e-mail address. Each entry must use the subject heading "Final Farewell Contest." No attachments will be accepted. Only one entry per person, please.

The top five entries will receive:

* "I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs" by Nigel Rees
* Two coffin nails
* Epitaph published on The Blog of Death

Deadline is Oct. 28, 2008. Winners will be announced on Oct. 31, 2008.

September 15, 2008

Dave Freeman

David Stewart Freeman, an ad executive who co-authored a bestselling book encouraging readers to live a life full of adventure, died on Aug. 17 after falling and hitting his head on the ledge of a glass door in his California home. He was 47.

Born and raised in Whittier, Calif., Freeman earned a bachelor's degree in urban planning from the University of Southern California in 1983. He spent the next two decades working in advertising, first at Cochrane Chase Livingston in Newport Beach, Calif., then at Grey Advertising and Kirshenbaum and Bond in New York City.

After watching the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from his apartment, Freeman decided to move back to Los Angeles to be closer to his family. There he joined the firm TBWA/Chiat/Day and founded The Disruption Consultancy.

In his spare time, Freeman was an avid traveler who preferred to wander alone. From 1996 to 2001, he and his friend Neil Teplica published WhatsGoingOn.com, a travel Website that featured reports "on events, festivals and celebrations all over the planet." The success of the site led to the 1999 publication of "100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss." The irreverent book spawned hundreds of similar mortality-related "list" texts.

Freeman participated in about half of the events mentioned in their book; he ran with the bulls in Pamplona, slept in an ice hotel in Finland and attended the Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage that happens only once every 12 years. He and Teplica also encouraged readers to attend the Academy Awards, view the World Cow Chip Throwing Championship in Beaver, Okla., and go "land diving" on the Island of Vanuatu.

The concept of embarking on great adventures before leaving this mortal coil served as the backdrop of the 2007 film "The Bucket List," starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. The announcement of Freeman's death also inspired writers from all over the world to pay tribute by posting their own itemized lists of "things to do before kicking the bucket" on blogs and Websites.

September 11, 2008

Victims of the Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks

The World Trade Center (A-M)

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Gordon McCannel Aamoth • Edelmiro (Ed) Abad • Maria Rose Abad • Andrew Anthony Abate • Vincent Abate • Laurence Christopher Abel • William F. Abrahamson • Richard Anthony Aceto • Alicia Acevedo Carranza • Heinrich B. Ackermann • Paul Andrew Acquaviva • Donald L. Adams • Patrick Adams • Shannon Lewis Adams • Stephen Adams • Ignatius Adanga • Christy A. Addamo • Terence E. Adderley • Sophia B. Addo • Lee Adler • Daniel Thomas Afflitto • Emmanuel Afuakwah • Alok Agarwal • Mukul Agarwala • Joseph Agnello • David Scott Agnes • Joao A.D. Aguiar • Brian G. Ahearn • Jeremiah J. Ahern • Joanne Ahladiotis • Shabbir Ahmed • Terrance Andre Aiken • Godwin Ajala • Gertrude M. Alagero • Andrew Alameno • Margaret Ann (Peggy) Jezycki Alario • Gary Albero • Jon L. Albert • Peter Craig Alderman • Jacquelyn Delaine Aldridge • Grace Alegre-Cua • David D. Alger • Boutros al-Hashim • Ernest Alikakos • Edward L. Allegretto • Eric Allen • Joseph Ryan Allen • Richard Dennis Allen • Richard Lanard Allen • Christopher Edward Allingham • Janet M. Alonso • Anthony Alvarado • Antonio Javier Alvarez • Telmo Alvear • Cesar A. Alviar • Tariq Amanullah • Angelo Amaranto • James Amato • Joseph Amatuccio • Christopher Charles Amoroso • Kazuhiro Anai • Calixto Anaya • Joseph Peter Anchundia • Kermit Charles Anderson • Yvette Anderson • John Andreacchio • Michael Rourke Andrews • Jean A. Andrucki • Siew-Nya Ang • Joseph Angelini • Joseph Angelini • Laura Angilletta • Doreen J. Angrisani • Lorraine D. Antigua • Peter Paul Apollo • Faustino Apostol • Frank Thomas Aquilino • Patrick Michael Aranyos • David Gregory Arce • Michael G. Arczynski • Louis Arena • Adam Arias • Michael J. Armstrong • Jack Charles Aron • Joshua Aron • Richard Avery Aronow • Japhet J. Aryee • Carl Asaro • Michael A. Asciak • Michael Edward Asher • Janice Ashley • Thomas J. Ashton • Manuel O. Asitimbay • Gregg Arthur Atlas • Gerald Atwood • James Audiffred • Louis Frank Aversano • Ezra Aviles • Samuel (Sandy) Ayala

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Arlene T. Babakitis • Eustace (Rudy) Bacchus • John James Badagliacca • Jane Ellen Baeszler • Robert J. Baierwalter • Andrew J. Bailey • Brett T. Bailey • Tatyana Bakalinskaya • Michael S. Baksh • Sharon Balkcom • Michael Andrew Bane • Kathy Bantis • Gerard Jean Baptiste • Walter Baran • Gerard A. Barbara • Paul V. Barbaro • James W. Barbella • Ivan Kyrillos Fairbanks Barbosa • Victor Daniel Barbosa • Colleen Ann Barkow • David Michael Barkway • Matthew Barnes • Sheila Patricia Barnes • Evan J. Baron • Renee Barrett-Arjune • Arthur T. Barry • Diane G. Barry • Maurice Vincent Barry • Scott D. Bart • Carlton W. Bartels • Guy Barzvi • Inna Basina • Alysia Basmajian • Kenneth William Basnicki • Steven J. Bates • Paul James Battaglia • W. David Bauer • Ivhan Luis Carpio Bautista • Marlyn C. Bautista • Jasper Baxter • Michele (Du Berry) Beale • Paul F. Beatini • Jane S. Beatty • Larry I. Beck • Manette Marie Beckles • Carl John Bedigian • Michael Beekman • Maria Behr • Yelena Belilovsky • Nina Patrice Bell • Andrea Della Bella • Debbie S. Bellows • Stephen Elliot Belson • Paul Michael Benedetti • Denise Lenore Benedetto • Bryan Craig Bennett • Eric L. Bennett • Oliver Duncan Bennett • Margaret L. Benson • Dominick J. Berardi • James Patrick Berger • Steven Howard Berger • John P. Bergin • Alvin Bergsohn • Daniel D. Bergstein • Michael J. Berkeley • Donna Bernaerts-Kearns • Dave Bernard • William Bernstein • David M. Berray • David S. Berry • Joseph J. Berry • William Reed Bethke • Timothy D. Betterly • Edward F. Beyea • Paul Michael Beyer • Anil T. Bharvaney • Bella Bhukhan • Shimmy D. Biegeleisen • Peter Alexander Bielfeld • William Biggart • Brian Bilcher • Carl Vincent Bini • Gary Bird • Joshua David Birnbaum • George Bishop • Jeffrey D. Bittner • Balewa Albert Blackman • Christopher Joseph Blackwell • Susan L. Blair • Harry Blanding • Janice L. Blaney • Craig Michael Blass • Rita Blau • Richard M. Blood • Michael A. Boccardi • John Paul Bocchi • Michael L. Bocchino • Susan Mary Bochino • Bruce Douglas (Chappy) Boehm • Mary Katherine Boffa • Nicholas A. Bogdan • Darren C. Bohan • Lawrence Francis Boisseau • Vincent M. Boland • Alan Bondarenko • Andre Bonheur • Colin Arthur Bonnett • Frank Bonomo • Yvonne L. Bonomo • Sean Booker • Juan Jose Borda Leyva • Sherry Ann Bordeaux • Krystine C. Bordenabe • Martin Boryczewski • Richard E. Bosco • John Howard Boulton • Francisco Bourdier • Thomas H. Bowden • Kimberly S. Bowers • Veronique (Bonnie) Nicole Bowers • Larry Bowman • Shawn Edward Bowman • Kevin L. Bowser • Gary R. Box • Gennady Boyarsky • Pamela Boyce • Michael Boyle • Alfred Braca • Sandra Conaty Brace • Kevin H. Bracken • David Brian Brady • Alexander Braginsky • Nicholas W. Brandemarti • Michelle Renee Bratton • Patrice Braut • Lydia Estelle Bravo • Ronald Michael Breitweiser • Edward A. Brennan • Frank H. Brennan • Michael Emmett Brennan • Peter Brennan • Thomas M. Brennan • Daniel Brethel • Gary L. Bright • Jonathan Eric Briley • Mark A. Brisman • Paul Gary Bristow • Victoria Alvarez Brito • Mark Francis Broderick • Herman C. Broghammer • Keith Broomfield • Janice J. Brown • Lloyd Brown • Patrick J. Brown • Bettina Browne • Mark Bruce • Richard Bruehert • Andrew Brunn • Vincent Brunton • Ronald Paul Bucca • Brandon J. Buchanan • Greg Joseph Buck • Dennis Buckley • Nancy Bueche • Patrick Joseph Buhse • John E. Bulaga • Stephen Bunin • Matthew J. Burke • Thomas Daniel Burke • William F. Burke • Donald James Burns • Kathleen A. Burns • Keith James Burns • John Patrick Burnside • Irina Buslo • Milton Bustillo • Thomas M. Butler • Patrick Byrne • Timothy G. Byrne

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Jesus Cabezas • Lillian Caceres • Brian Joseph Cachia • Steven Cafiero • Richard M. Caggiano • Cecile M. Caguicla • Michael John Cahill • Scott W. Cahill • Thomas J. Cahill • George Cain • Salvatore B. Calabro • Joseph Calandrillo • Philip V. Calcagno • Edward Calderon • Kenneth Marcus Caldwell • Dominick E. Calia • Felix (Bobby) Calixte • Frank Callahan • Liam Callahan • Luigi Calvi • Roko Camaj • Michael Cammarata • David Otey Campbell • Geoffrey Thomas Campbell • Jill Marie Campbell • Robert Arthur Campbell • Sandra Patricia Campbell • Juan Ortega Campos • Sean Canavan • John A. Candela • Vincent Cangelosi • Stephen J. Cangialosi • Lisa B. Cannava • Brian Cannizzaro • Michael R. Canty • Louis A. Caporicci • Jonathan N. Cappello • James Christopher Cappers • Richard M. Caproni • Jose Cardona • Dennis M Carey • Edward Carlino • Michael Scott Carlo • David G. Carlone • Rosemarie C. Carlson • Mark Stephen Carney • Joyce Ann Carpeneto • Jeremy M. Carrington • Michael T. Carroll • Peter Carroll • James J. Carson • Christopher Newton Carter • James Marcel Cartier • Vivian Casalduc • John F. Casazza • Paul Cascio • Margarito Casillas • Thomas Anthony Casoria • William Otto Caspar • Alejandro Castano • German Castillo Galicia • Arcelia Castillo • Leonard M. Castrianno • Jose Ramon Castro • Richard G. Catarelli • Christopher Sean Caton • Robert J. Caufield • Mary Teresa Caulfield • Judson Cavalier • Michael Joseph Cawley • Jason D. Cayne • Juan Armando Ceballos • Marcia G. Cecil-Carter • Jason Cefalu • Thomas J. Celic • Ana M. Centeno • Joni Cesta • Jeffrey M. Chairnoff • Swarna Chalasini • William Chalcoff • Eli Chalouh • Charles Lawrence (Chip) Chan • Mandy Chang • Mark L. Charette • Gregorio Manuel Chavez • Pedro Francisco Checo • Douglas MacMillan Cherry • Stephen Patrick Cherry • Vernon Paul Cherry • Nestor Chevalier • Swede Joseph Chevalier • Alexander H. Chiang • Dorothy J. Chiarchiaro • Luis Alfonso Chimbo • Robert Chin • Wing Wai (Eddie) Ching • Nicholas P. Chiofalo • John Chipura • Peter A. Chirchirillo • Catherine E. Chirls • Kyung (Kaccy) Cho • Abdul K. Chowdhury • Mohammed Salahuddin Chowdhury • Kirsten L. Christophe • Pamela Chu • Steven Paul Chucknick • Wai-ching Chung • Christopher Ciafardini • Alex F. Ciccone • Frances Ann Cilente • Elaine Cillo • Edna Cintron • Nestor Andre Cintron • Robert Dominick Cirri • Juan Pablo Alvarez Cisneros • Benjamin Keefe Clark • Eugene Clark • Gregory A. Clark • Mannie Leroy Clark • Thomas R. Clark • Christopher Robert Clarke • Donna Clarke • Michael Clarke • Suria R.E. Clarke • Kevin Francis Cleary • James D. Cleere • Geoffrey W. Cloud • Susan M. Clyne • Steven Coakley • Jeffrey Coale • Patricia A. Cody • Daniel Michael Coffey • Jason Matthew Coffey • Florence Cohen • Kevin Sanford Cohen • Anthony Joseph Coladonato • Mark J. Colaio • Stephen J. Colaio • Christopher M. Colasanti • Kevin Nathaniel Colbert • Michel Paris Colbert • Keith Eugene Coleman • Scott Thomas Coleman • Tarel Coleman • Liam Joseph Colhoun • Robert D. Colin • Robert J. Coll • Jean Marie Collin • John Michael Collins • Michael L. Collins • Thomas J. Collins • Joseph Collison • Patricia Malia Colodner • Linda M. Colon • Soledi Colon • Ronald Comer • Jaime Concepcion • Albert Conde • Denease Conley • Susan Clancy Conlon • Margaret Mary Conner • Cynthia L. Connolly • John E. Connolly • James Lee Connor • Jonathan (J.C.) Connors • Kevin P. Connors • Kevin Francis Conroy • Brenda E. Conway • Dennis Michael Cook • Helen D. Cook • John A. Cooper • Joseph J. Coppo • Gerard J. Coppola • Joseph Albert Corbett • Alejandro Cordero • Robert Cordice • Danny A. Correa-Gutierrez • Ruben D. Correa • James Corrigan • Carlos Cortes • Kevin M. Cosgrove • Dolores Marie Costa • Digna Alexandra Rivera Costanza • Charles Gregory Costello • Michael S. Costello • Conrod K.H. Cottoy • Martin Coughlan • John Gerard Coughlin • Timothy John Coughlin • James E. Cove • Andre Cox • Frederick John Cox • Michelle Coyle-Eulau • James Raymond Coyle • Anne M. Cramer • Christopher Seton Cramer • Denise Crant • James L. Crawford • Robert James Crawford • Joanne Mary Cregan • Lucia Crifasi • John Crisci • Daniel Hal Crisman • Dennis A. Cross • Helen Crossin-Kittle • Kevin Raymond Crotty • Thomas G. Crotty • John Crowe • Welles Remy Crowther • Robert L. Cruikshank • Francisco Cruz • John Robert Cruz • Kenneth John Cubas • Francisco C. Cubero • Richard Joseph Cudina • Neil James Cudmore • Thomas Patrick Cullen • Joan McConnell Cullinan • Joyce Cummings • Brian Thomas Cummins • Nilton Albuquerque Fernao Cunha • Michael Joseph Cunningham • Robert Curatolo • Laurence Curia • Paul Dario Curioli • Beverly Curry • Michael Curtin • Gavin Cushny

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John D'Allara • Vincent D'Amadeo • Jack L. D'Ambrosi • Mary D'Antonio • Edward Alexander D'Atri • Michael D. D'Auria • Michael Jude D'Esposito • Manuel Da Mota • Carlos S. DaCosta • Caleb Arron Dack • Thomas A. Damaskinos • Jeannine Marie Damiani-Jones • Patrick W. Danahy • Nana Kwuku Danso • Vincent G. Danz • Dwight Donald Darcy • Elizabeth Ann Darling • Annette Andrea Dataram • Lawrence Davidson • Michael Allen Davidson • Scott Matthew Davidson • Titus Davidson • Niurka Davila • Clinton Davis • Wayne Terrial Davis • Anthony Richard Dawson • Calvin Dawson • Edward James Day • Jayceryll M. de Chavez • Emerita (Emy) De La Pena • Azucena de la Torre • Cristina de Laura • Oscar de Laura • Francis (Frank) Albert De Martini • Robert J. DeAngelis • James V. DeBlase • Paul DeCola • Jason Christopher DeFazio • Jennifer DeJesus • Monique E. DeJesus • Nereida DeJesus • Martin DeMeo • Jean C. DePalma • Michael DeRienzo • David Paul DeRubbio • Jemal Legesse DeSantis • Christian D. DeSimone • Edward DeSimone • Melanie Louise DeVere • Jerry DeVito • William T. Dean • Thomas P. Deangelis • Tara Debek • Anna Debin • Simon Dedvukaj • David A. Defeo • Manuel Del Valle • Donald A. Delapenha • Vito Joseph Deleo • Danielle Delie • Joseph A. Della Pietra • Palmina Delli Gatti • Colleen Ann Deloughery • Anthony Demas • Francis X. Deming • Carol K. Demitz • Kevin Dennis • Thomas F. Dennis • Jose Nicholas Depena • Robert J. Deraney • Andrew Desperito • Cindy Ann Deuel • Robert P. Devitt • Dennis Lawrence Devlin • Gerard Dewan • Simon Suleman Ali Kassamali Dhanani • Michael L. DiAgostino • Patricia F. DiChiaro • John DiFato • Vincent F. DiFazio • Carl DiFranco • Donald J. DiFranco • Debra Ann DiMartino • Anthony DiOnisio • George DiPasquale • Joseph DiPilato • Douglas Frank DiStefano • Michael Diaz-Piedra • Judith Belguese Diaz-Sierra • Lourdes Galletti Diaz • Matthew Diaz • Nancy Diaz • Obdulio Ruiz Diaz • Joseph Dermot Dickey • Lawrence Patrick Dickinson • Michael David Diehl • Stephen P. Dimino • William J. Dimmling • Christopher Dincuff • Jeffrey M. Dingle • Ramzi A. Doany • John J. Doherty • Melissa C. Doi • Brendan Dolan • Neil Dollard • James Joseph Domanico • Benilda Pascua Domingo • Charles (Carlos) Dominguez • Geronimo (Jerome) Mark Patrick Dominguez • Kevin W. Donnelly • Jacqueline Donovan • Stephen Dorf • Thomas Dowd • Kevin Christopher Dowdell • Mary Yolanda Dowling • Raymond M. Downey • Frank Joseph Doyle • Joseph M. Doyle • Randy Drake • Stephen Patrick Driscoll • Mirna A. Duarte • Luke A. Dudek • Christopher Michael Duffy • Gerard Duffy • Michael Joseph Duffy • Thomas W. Duffy • Antoinette Duger • Sareve Dukat • Christopher Joseph Dunne • Richard A. Dunstan • Patrick Thomas Dwyer

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Joseph Anthony Eacobacci • John Bruce Eagleson • Robert D. Eaton • Dean P. Eberling • Margaret Ruth Echtermann • Paul Robert Eckna • Constantine (Gus) Economos • Dennis Michael Edwards • Michael Hardy Edwards • Christine Egan • Lisa Egan • Martin Egan • Michael Egan • Samantha Egan • Carole Eggert • Lisa Caren Weinstein Ehrlich • John Ernst (Jack) Eichler • Eric Adam Eisenberg • Daphne F. Elder • Michael J. Elferis • Mark J. Ellis • Valerie Silver Ellis • Albert Alfy William Elmarry • Edgar H. Emery • Doris Suk-Yuen Eng • Christopher S. Epps • Ulf Ramm Ericson • Erwin L. Erker • William J. Erwin • Sarah (Ali) Escarcega • Jose Espinal • Fanny M. Espinoza • Brigette Ann Esposito • Francis Esposito • Michael Esposito • William Esposito • Ruben Esquilin • Sadie Ette • Barbara G. Etzold • Eric Brian Evans • Robert Edward Evans • Meredith Emily June Ewart

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Catherine K. Fagan • Patricia M. Fagan • Keith G. Fairben • William F. Fallon • William Fallon • Anthony J. Fallone • Dolores B. Fanelli • John Joseph Fanning • Kathleen (Kit) Faragher • Thomas Farino • Nancy Carole Farley • Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Farmer • Douglas Farnum • John G. Farrell • John W. Farrell • Terrence Patrick Farrell • Joseph Farrelly • Thomas P. Farrelly • Syed Abdul Fatha • Christopher Faughnan • Wendy R. Faulkner • Shannon M. Fava • Bernard D. Favuzza • Robert Fazio • Ronald C. Fazio • William Feehan • Francis J. (Frank) Feely • Garth E. Feeney • Sean B. Fegan • Lee S. Fehling • Peter Feidelberg • Alan D. Feinberg • Rosa Maria Feliciano • Edward T. Fergus • George Ferguson • Henry Fernandez • Jose Manuel Contreras Fernandez • Judy H. Fernandez • Elisa Giselle Ferraina • Anne Marie Sallerin Ferreira • Robert John Ferris • David Francis Ferrugio • Louis V. Fersini • Michael David Ferugio • Bradley James Fetchet • Jennifer Louise Fialko • Kristen Fiedel • Samuel Fields • Michael Bradley Finnegan • Timothy J. Finnerty • Michael Curtis Fiore • Stephen J. Fiorelli • Paul M. Fiori • John Fiorito • John R. Fischer • Andrew Fisher • Bennett Lawson Fisher • John Roger Fisher • Thomas J. Fisher • Lucy Fishman • Ryan D. Fitzgerald • Thomas Fitzpatrick • Richard P. Fitzsimons • Salvatore A. Fiumefreddo • Christina Donovan Flannery • Eileen Flecha • Andre G. Fletcher • Carl Flickinger • John Joseph Florio • Joseph W. Flounders • David Fodor • Michael N. Fodor • Steven Mark Fogel • Thomas Foley • David Fontana • Chih Min (Dennis) Foo • Del Rose Forbes-Cheatham • Godwin Forde • Donald A. Foreman • Christopher Hugh Forsythe • Claudia Alicia Martinez Foster • Noel J. Foster • Ana Fosteris • Robert J. Foti • Jeffrey L. Fox • Virginia Fox • Joan Francis • Pauline Francis • Virgin (Lucy) Francis • Gary J. Frank • Morton Frank • Peter Christopher Frank • Richard K. Fraser • Kevin Joseph Frawley • Clyde Frazier • Lillian I. Frederick • Andrew Fredericks • Jamitha Freemen • Brett O. Freiman • Peter L. Freund • Arlene E. Fried • Alan Wayne Friedlander • Andrew K. Friedman • Gregg J. Froehner • Peter Christian Fry • Clement Fumando • Steven Elliot Furman • Paul James Furmato

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Fredric Gabler • Richard S. Gabrielle • James Andrew Gadiel • Pamela Gaff • Ervin Vincent Gailliard • Deanna L. Galante • Grace Galante • Anthony Edward Gallagher • Daniel James Gallagher • John Patrick Gallagher • Tomas Gallegos Linares • Cono E. Gallo • Vincenzo Gallucci • Thomas Edward Galvin • Giovanna (Genni) Gambale • Thomas Gambino • Giann F. Gamboa • Peter J. Ganci • Claude Michael Gann • Charles William Garbarini • Cesar Garcia • David Garcia • Jorge Luis Morron Garcia • Juan Garcia • Marlyn C. Garcia • Christopher Gardner • Douglas B. Gardner • Harvey J. Gardner • Jeffrey B. Gardner • Thomas A. Gardner • William Arthur Gardner • Francesco Garfi • Rocco Gargano • James M. Gartenberg • Matthew David Garvey • Bruce Gary • Boyd A. Gatton • Donald Richard Gavagan • Terence D. Gazzani • Gary Geidel • Paul Hamilton Geier • Julie M. Geis • Peter Gelinas • Steven Paul Geller • Howard G. Gelling • Peter Victor Genco • Steven Gregory Genovese • Alayne F. Gentul • Edward F. Geraghty • Suzanne Geraty • Ralph Gerhardt • Robert J. Gerlich • Denis P. Germain • Marina R. Gertsberg • Susan M. Getzendanner • James Gerard Geyer • Joseph M. Giaccone • Vincent Francis Giammona • Debra L. Gibbon • James A. Giberson • Craig Neil Gibson • Ronnie Gies • Laura A. Giglio • Andrew Clive Gilbert • Timothy Paul Gilbert • Paul Stuart Gilbey • Paul John Gill • Mark Y. Gilles • Evan H. Gillette • Ronald Gilligan • Rodney C. Gillis • Laura Gilly • John F. Ginley • Donna Marie Giordano • Jeffrey Giordano • John Giordano • Steven A. Giorgetti • Martin Giovinazzo • Jinny Lady Giraldo • Kum-Kum Girolamo • Salvatore Gitto • Cynthia Giugliano • Mon Gjonbalaj • Dianne Gladstone • Keith Alexander Glascoe • Thomas I. Glasser • Harry Glenn • Barry H. Glick • Steven Lawrence Glick • John T. Gnazzo • William (Bill) Robert Godshalk • Michael Gogliormella • Brian Fredric Goldberg • Jeffrey Grant Goldflam • Michelle Herman Goldstein • Monica Goldstein • Steven Goldstein • Andrew H. Golkin • Dennis James Gomes • Enrique Antonio Gomez • Jose Bienvenido Gomez • Manuel Gomez • Wilder Gomez • Jenine Gonzalez • Joel Guevara Gonzalez • Mauricio Gonzalez • Rosa J. Gonzalez • Calvin J. Gooding • Harry Goody • Kiran Reddy Gopu • Catherine Carmen Gorayeb • Kerene Gordon • Sebastian Gorki • Kieran Gorman • Thomas E. Gorman • Michael Edward Gould • Yugi Goya • Jon Richard Grabowski • Christopher Michael Grady • Edwin John Graf • David M. Graifman • Gilbert Granados • Elvira Granitto • Winston Arthur Grant • Christopher Stewart Gray • James Michael Gray • Linda Mair Grayling • John Michael Grazioso • Timothy Grazioso • Derrick Arthur Green • Wade Brian Green • Elaine Myra Greenberg • Gayle R. Greene • James Arthur Greenleaf • Eileen Marsha Greenstein • Elizabeth (Lisa) Martin Gregg • Denise Gregory • Donald H. Gregory • Florence M. Gregory • Pedro (David) Grehan • John M. Griffin • Tawanna Griffin • Joan D. Griffith • Warren Grifka • Ramon Grijalvo • Joseph F. Grillo • David Grimner • Kenneth Grouzalis • Joseph Grzelak • Matthew J. Grzymalski • Robert Joseph Gschaar • Liming (Michael) Gu • Jose A. Guadalupe • Yan Zhu (Cindy) Guan • Geoffrey E. Guja • Joseph Gullickson • Babita Guman • Douglas B. Gurian • Janet H. Gustafson • Philip T. Guza • Barbara Guzzardo • Peter Gyulavary

Victims of the Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks

The World Trade Center (N-Z)

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Robert B. Nagel • Takuya Nakamura • Alexander J.R. Napier • Frank Joseph Naples • John Napolitano • Catherine A. Nardella • Mario Nardone • Manika Narula • Narender Nath • Karen S. Navarro • Joseph M. Navas • Francis J. Nazario • Glenroy Neblett • Marcus R. Neblett • Jerome O. Nedd • Laurence Nedell • Luke G. Nee • Pete Negron • Ann Nicole Nelson • David William Nelson • James Nelson • Michele Ann Nelson • Peter Allen Nelson • Oscar Nesbitt • Gerard Terence Nevins • Nancy Yuen Ngo • Jody Tepedino Nichilo • Martin Niederer • Alfonse J. Niedermeyer • Frank John Niestadt • Gloria Nieves • Juan Nieves • Troy Edward Nilsen • Paul R. Nimbley • John Ballantine Niven • Curtis Terrence Noel • Daniel R. Nolan • Robert Walter Noonan • Daniela R. Notaro • Brian Novotny • Soichi Numata • Brian Felix Nunez • Jose R. Nunez • Jeffrey Nussbaum

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Dennis O'Berg • James P. O'Brien • Michael O'Brien • Scott J. O'Brien • Timothy Michael O'Brien • Daniel O'Callaghan • Dennis J. O'Connor • Diana J. O'Connor • Keith K. O'Connor • Richard J. O'Connor • Amy O'Doherty • Marni Pont O'Doherty • James Andrew O'Grady • Thomas O'Hagan • Patrick O'Keefe • William O'Keefe • Gerald O'Leary • Matthew Timothy O'Mahoney • Seamus L. O'Neal • John P. O'Neill • Peter J. O'Neill • Sean Gordon Corbett O'Neill • Kevin O'Rourke • Patrick J. O'Shea • Robert W. O'Shea • Timothy O'Sullivan • James A. Oakley • Jefferson Ocampo • Douglas Oelschlager • Takashi Ogawa • Albert Ogletree • Philip Paul Ognibene • Joseph J. Ogren • Samuel Oitice • Gerald Michael Olcott • Christine Anne Olender • Elsy Carolina Osorio Oliva • Linda Mary Oliva • Edward K. Oliver • Leah E. Oliver • Eric T. Olsen • Jeffrey James Olsen • Maureen L. Olson • Steven John Olson • Toshihiro Onda • Michael C. Opperman • Christopher Orgielewicz • Margaret Orloske • Virginia A. Ormiston-Kenworthy • Juan Romero Orozco • Ronald Orsini • Peter K. Ortale • Alexander Ortiz • David Ortiz • Emilio (Peter) Ortiz • Pablo Ortiz • Paul Ortiz • Sonia Ortiz • Masaru Ose • James Robert Ostrowski • Jason Douglas Oswald • Michael Otten • Isidro Ottenwalder • Michael Ou • Todd Joseph Ouida • Jesus Ovalles • Peter J. Owens • Adianes Oyola

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Angel M. Pabon • Israel Pabon • Roland Pacheco • Michael Benjamin Packer • Deepa K. Pakkala • Jeffrey Matthew Palazzo • Thomas Anthony Palazzo • Richard (Rico) Palazzolo • Orio Joseph Palmer • Frank A. Palombo • Alan N. Palumbo • Christopher M. Panatier • Dominique Pandolfo • Paul Pansini • John M. Paolillo • Edward J. Papa • Salvatore Papasso • James N. Pappageorge • Vinod K. Parakat • Vijayashanker Paramsothy • Nitin Parandkar • Hardai (Casey) Parbhu • James Wendell Parham • Debra (Debbie) Paris • George Paris • Gye-Hyong Park • Philip L. Parker • Michael A. Parkes • Robert Emmett Parks • Hasmukhrai Chuckulal Parmar • Robert Parro • Diane Marie Moore Parsons • Leobardo Lopez Pascual • Michael J. Pascuma • Jerrold H. Paskins • Horace Robert Passananti • Suzanne H. Passaro • Victor Antonio Martinez Pastrana • Avnish Ramanbhai Patel • Dipti Patel • Manish K. Patel • Steven B. Paterson • James Matthew Patrick • Manuel Patrocino • Bernard E. Patterson • Cira Marie Patti • Robert Edward Pattison • James R. Paul • Victor Paz-Gutierrez • Patrice Paz • Sharon Cristina Millan Paz • Stacey L. Peak • Richard Allen Pearlman • Durrell Pearsall • Thomas E. Pedicini • Todd D. Pelino • Michel Adrian Pelletier • Anthony Peluso • Angel Ramon Pena • Jose D. Pena • Richard Al Penny • Salvatore F. Pepe • Carl Allen Peralta • Robert David Peraza • Jon A. Perconti • Alejo Perez • Angel Perez • Angela Susan Perez • Anthony Perez • Ivan Perez • Nancy E. Perez • Joseph John Perroncino • Edward J. Perrotta • Emelda Perry • Glenn C. Perry • John William Perry • Franklin Allan Pershep • Daniel Pesce • Michael J. Pescherine • Davin Peterson • William Russel Peterson • Mark Petrocelli • Philip S. Petti • Glen Kerrin Pettit • Dominick Pezzulo • Kaleen E. Pezzuti • Kevin Pfeifer • Tu-Anh Pham • Kenneth John Phelan • Eugenia Piantieri • Ludwig John Picarro • Matthew Picerno • Joseph O. Pick • Christopher Pickford • Dennis J. Pierce • Bernard T. Pietronico • Nicholas P. Pietrunti • Theodoros Pigis • Susan Elizabeth Ancona Pinto • Joseph Piskadlo • Christopher Todd Pitman • Josh Piver • Joseph Plumitallo • John M. Pocher • William Howard Pohlmann • Laurence M. Polatsch • Thomas H. Polhemus • Steve Pollicino • Susan M. Pollio • Joshua Poptean • Giovanna Porras • Anthony Portillo • James Edward Potorti • Daphne Pouletsos • Richard Poulos • Stephen E. Poulos • Brandon Jerome Powell • Shawn Edward Powell • Tony Pratt • Gregory M. Preziose • Wanda Ivelisse Prince • Vincent Princiotta • Kevin Prior • Everett Martin (Marty) Proctor • Carrie B. Progen • David Lee Pruim • Richard Prunty • John F. Puckett • Robert D. Pugliese • Edward F. Pullis • Patricia Ann Puma • Hemanth Kumar Puttur • Edward R. Pykon

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Christopher Quackenbush • Lars Peter Qualben • Lincoln Quappe • Beth Ann Quigley • Michael Quilty • James Francis Quinn • Ricardo Quinn

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Carol Rabalais • Christopher Peter A. Racaniello • Leonard Ragaglia • Eugene J. Raggio • Laura Marie Ragonese-Snik • Michael Ragusa • Peter F. Raimondi • Harry A. Raines • Ehtesham U. Raja • Valsa Raju • Edward Rall • Lukas (Luke) Rambousek • Julio Fernandez Ramirez • Maria Isabel Ramirez • Harry Ramos • Vishnoo Ramsaroop • Lorenzo Ramzey • A. Todd Rancke • Adam David Rand • Jonathan C. Randall • Srinivasa Shreyas Ranganath • Anne Rose T. Ransom • Faina Rapoport • Robert Arthur Rasmussen • Amenia Rasool • Roger Mark Rasweiler • David Alan James Rathkey • William Ralph Raub • Gerard Rauzi • Alexey Razuvaev • Gregory Reda • Sarah (Prothero) Redheffer • Michele Reed • Judith A. Reese • Donald J. Regan • Robert M. Regan • Thomas M. Regan • Christian Michael Otto Regenhard • Howard Reich • Gregg Reidy • James B. Reilly • Kevin O. Reilly • Timothy E. Reilly • Joseph Reina • Thomas Barnes Reinig • Frank B. Reisman • Joshua Scott Reiss • Karen Renda • John Armand Reo • Richard Rescorla • John Thomas Resta • Eduvigis (Eddie) Reyes • Bruce A. Reynolds • John Frederick Rhodes • Francis S. Riccardelli • Rudolph N. Riccio • AnnMarie (Davi) Riccoboni • David Rice • Eileen Mary Rice • Kenneth F. Rice • Vernon Allan Richard • Claude D. Richards • Gregory Richards • Michael Richards • Venesha O. Richards • James C. Riches • Alan Jay Richman • John M. Rigo • James Riley • Theresa (Ginger) Risco • Rose Mary Riso • Moises N. Rivas • Joseph Rivelli • Carmen A. Rivera • Isaias Rivera • Juan William Rivera • Linda Rivera • David E. Rivers • Joseph R. Riverso • Paul Rizza • John Frank Rizzo • Stephen Louis Roach • Joseph Roberto • Leo A. Roberts • Michael Edward Roberts • Michael Roberts • Donald Walter Robertson • Catherina Robinson • Jeffrey Robinson • Michell Lee Robotham • Donald Robson • Antonio Augusto Tome Rocha • Raymond J. Rocha • Laura Rockefeller • John M. Rodak • Antonio Jose Carrusca Rodrigues • David B. Rodriguez-Vargas • Anthony Rodriguez • Carlos Cortez Rodriguez • Carmen Milagros Rodriguez • Gregory E. Rodriguez • Marsha A. Rodriguez • Richard Rodriguez • Matthew Rogan • Karlie Barbara Rogers • Scott Rohner • Keith Roma • Joseph M. Romagnolo • Efrain Franco Romero • Elvin Santiago Romero • James A. Romito • Sean Rooney • Eric Thomas Ropiteau • Wendy Alice Rosario Wakeford • Aida Rosario • Angela Rosario • Mark H. Rosen • Brooke David Rosenbaum • Linda Rosenbaum • Sheryl Lynn Rosenbaum • Lloyd D. Rosenberg • Mark Louis Rosenberg • Andrew I. Rosenblum • Joshua M. Rosenblum • Joshua A. Rosenthal • Richard David Rosenthal • Daniel Rossetti • Norman Rossinow • Nicholas P. Rossomando • Michael Craig Rothberg • Donna Marie Rothenberg • Nick Rowe • Timothy A. Roy • Paul G. Ruback • Ronald J. Ruben • Joanne Rubino • David Michael Ruddle • Bart Joseph Ruggiere • Susan Ann Ruggiero • Adam K. Ruhalter • Gilbert Ruiz • Stephen P. Russell • Steven Harris Russin • Michael Thomas Russo • Wayne Alan Russo • Edward Ryan • John J. Ryan • Jonathan Stephan Ryan • Matthew Lancelot Ryan • Tatiana Ryjova • Christina Sunga Ryook

Victims of the Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks

The Pentagon

Craig Amundson • Melissa Rose Barnes • Max J. Beilke • Kris Romeo Bishundat • Carrie R. Blagburn • Canfield D. Boone • Diana Borrero de Padro • Donna Bowen • Allen P. Boyle • Christopher Lee Burford • Daniel Martin Caballero • Jose Orlando Calderon-Olmedo • Angelene C. Carter • Sharon A. Carver • John J. Chada • Rosa Maria (Rosemary) Chapa • Julian T. Cooper • Eric A. Cranford • Ada M. Davis • Gerald Francis DeConto • Jerry Don Dickerson • Johnnie Doctor • Robert Edward Dolan • William Howard Donovan • Patrick Dunn • Edward Thomas Earhart • Robert Randolph Elseth • Jamie Lynn Fallon • Amelia V. Fields • Gerald P. Fisher • Matthew Michael Flocco • Sandra N. Foster • Lawrence Daniel Getzfred • Cortez Ghee • Brenda C. Gibson • Ron F. Golinski • Diane M. Hale-McKinzy • Carolyn B. Halmon • Sheila M. S. Hein • Ronald John Hemenway • Wallace Cole Hogan • Jimmie Ira Holley • Angela M. Houtz • Brady K. Howell • Peggie M. Hurt • Stephen Neil Hyland • Robert J. Hymel • Lacey B. Ivory • Dennis M. Johnson • Judith L. Jones • Brenda Kegler • Michael Scott Lamana • David W. Laychak • Samantha L. Lightbourn-Allen • Stephen V. Long • James T. Lynch • Terence M. Lynch • Nehamon Lyons • Shelley A. Marshall • Teresa M. Martin • Ada L. Mason-Acker • Dean E. Mattson • Timothy J. Maude • Robert J. Maxwell • Molly L. McKenzie • Patricia E. (Patti) Mickley • Ronald D. Milam • Gerard (Jerry) P. Moran • Odessa V. Morris • Brian Anthony Moss • Teddington H. Moy • Patrick Jude Murphy • Khang Ngoc Nguyen • Michael Allen Noeth • Chin Sun Pak • Jonas Martin Panik • Clifford L. Patterson • Darin Howard Pontell • Scott Powell • Jack D. Punches • Joseph John Pycior • Deborah A. Ramsaur • Rhonda Sue Rasmussen • Marsha Dianah Ratchford • Martha M. Reszke • Cecelia E. Richard • Edward V. Rowenhorst • Judy Rowlett • Robert E. Russell • William R. Ruth • Charles E. Sabin • Marjorie C. Salamone • David M. Scales • Robert Allan Schlegel • Janice M. Scott • Michael L. Selves • Marian H. Serva • Dan Frederic Shanower • Antionette M. Sherman • Donald D. Simmons • Cheryle D. Sincock • Gregg Harold Smallwood • Gary F. Smith • Patricia J. Statz • Edna L. Stephens • Larry L. Strickland • Kip P. Taylor • Sandra C. Taylor • Karl W. Teepe • Tamara C. Thurman • Otis Vincent Tolbert • Willie Q. Troy • Ronald James Vauk • Karen J. Wagner • Meta L. Waller • Maudlyn A. White • Sandra L. White • Ernest M. Willcher • David Lucian Williams • Dwayne Williams • Marvin R. Woods • Kevin Wayne Yokum • Donald McArthur Young • Edmond G. Young • Lisa L. Young

Victims of the Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks

AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77

Paul W. Ambrose • Yeneneh Betru • Mary Jane (MJ) Booth • Bernard Curtis Brown • Charles F. Burlingame • Suzanne M. Calley • William E. Caswell • David M. Charlebois • Sara M. Clark • Asia S. Cottom • James Daniel Debeuneure • Rodney Dickens • Eddie A. Dillard • Charles A. Droz • Barbara G. Edwards • Charles S. Falkenberg • Dana Falkenberg • Zoe Falkenberg • James Joseph Ferguson • Darlene E. Flagg • Wilson F. Flagg • Richard P. Gabriel • Ian J. Gray • Stanley R. Hall • Michele M. Heidenberger • Bryan C. Jack • Steven D. Jacoby • Ann C. Judge • Chandler R. Keller • Yvonne E. Kennedy • Norma Cruz Khan • Karen Ann Kincaid • Dong Chul Lee • Jennifer Lewis • Kenneth E. Lewis • Renee A. May • Dora Marie Menchaca • Christopher C. Newton • Barbara K. Olson • Ruben S. Ornedo • Robert Penninger • Robert R. Ploger • Zandra F. Ploger • Lisa J. Raines • Todd H. Reuben • John P. Sammartino • Diane M. Simmons • George W. Simmons • Mari-Rae Sopper • Robert Speisman • Norma Lang Steuerle • Hilda E. Taylor • Leonard E. Taylor • Sandra D. Teague • Leslie A. Whittington • John D. Yamnicky • Vicki C. Yancey • Shuyin Yang • Yuguang Zheng

Victims of the Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks

UNITED FLIGHT 93

Christian Adams • Lorraine G. Bay • Todd Beamer • Alan Beaven • Mark K. Bingham • Deora Frances Bodley • Sandra W. Bradshaw • Marion Britton • Thomas E. Burnett • William Joseph Cashman • Georgine Rose Corrigan • Patricia Cushing • Jason Dahl • Joseph Deluca • Patrick Joseph Driscoll • Edward P. Felt • Jane C. Folger • Colleen Laura Fraser • Andrew Garcia • Jeremy Glick • Lauren Grandcolas • Wanda Anita Green • Donald F. Greene • Linda Gronlund • Richard Jerry Guadagno • LeRoy Wilton Homer • Toshiya Kuge • CeeCee Lyles • Hilda Marcin • Waleska Martinez Rivera • Nicole Miller • Louis J. Nacke • Donald Arthur Peterson • Jean Hoadley Peterson • Mark Rothenberg • Christine Anne Snyder • John Talignani • Honor Elizabeth Wainio • Deborah Welsh • Olga Kristin Gould White

Victims of the Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks

UNITED FLIGHT 175

Alona Avraham • Garnet Edward (Ace) Bailey • Mark Lawrence Bavis • Graham Andrew Berkeley • Touri Bolourchi • Klaus Bothe • Daniel R. Brandhorst • David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst • John Brett Cahill • Christoffer Mikael Carstanjen • John (Jay) J. Corcoran • Ana Gloria Pocasangre de Barrera • Dorothy Alma DeAraujo • Robert John Fangman • Lisa Frost • Ronald Gamboa • Lynn Catherine Goodchild • Peter Morgan Goodrich • Douglas A. Gowell • Francis E. Grogan • Carl Max Hammond • Christine Lee Hanson • Peter Hanson • Gerald F. Hardacre • Eric Samadikan Hartono • James E. Hayden • Herbert W. Homer • Michael R. Horrocks • Robert Adrien Jalbert • Amy N. Jarret • Ralph Francis Kershaw • Sue Jue Kim-Hanson • Heinrich Kimmig • Amy R. King • Brian Kinney • Kathryn L. LaBorie • Robert George LeBlanc • Maclovio Lopez • Marianne MacFarlane • Alfred Gilles Padre Joseph Marchand • Louis Neil Mariani • Juliana Valentine McCourt • Ruth Magdaline McCourt • Wolfgang Peter Menzel • Shawn M. Nassaney • Marie Pappalardo • Patrick J. Quigley • Frederick Charles Rimmele • James M. Roux • Jesus Sanchez • Victor J. Saracini • Mary Kathleen Shearer • Robert Michael Shearer • Jane Louise Simpkin • Brian D. Sweeney • Michael C. Tarrou • Alicia Nicole Titus • Timothy Ray Ward • William M. Weems

Victims of the Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks

AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11

Anna Williams Allison • David Lawrence Angell • Lynn Edwards Angell • Seima Aoyama • Barbara Jean Ares Tegui • Myra Joy Aronson • Christine Barbuto • Carolyn Mayer Beug • Kelly Ann Booms • Carol Marie Bouchard • Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey • Jeffrey Dwayne Collman • Jeffrey W. Coombs • Tara Kathleen Creamer • Thelma Cuccinello • Patrick Currivan • Brian P. Dale • David DiMeglio • Donald Americo DiTullio • Alberto Dominguez • Paige Farley-Hackel • Alexander Milan Filipov • Carol Flyzik • Paul Friedman • Karleton D.B. Fyfe • Peter Alan Gay • Linda M. George • Edmund Glazer • Lisa Reinhart Fenn Gordenstein • Andrew Peter Charles Curry Green • Peter Paul Hashem • Robert Jay Hayes • Edward (Ted) R. Hennessy • John A. Hofer • Cora Hidalgo Holland • John Nicholas Humber • Waleed Iskandar • John Charles Jenkins • Charles Edward Jones • Robin Kaplan • Barbara Keating • David Kovalcin • Judy Larocque • Natalie Janis Lasden • Daniel John Lee • Daniel C. Lewin • Sara Elizabeth Low • Susan A. MacKay • Karen A. Martin • Thomas F. McGuinness • Christopher D. Mello • Jeffrey Peter Mladenik • Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes • Carlos Alberto Montoya • Laura Lee Morabito • Mildred Naiman • Laurie Ann Neira • Renee Lucille Newell • Kathleen Ann Nicosia • Jacqueline J. Norton • Robert Grant Norton • John Ogonowski • Betty Ann Ong • Jane M. Orth • Thomas Nicholas Pecorelli • Berinthia Berenson Perkins • Sonia Morales Puopolo • David E. Retik • Jean Destrehan Roger • Philip M. Rosenzweig • Richard Barry Ross • Jessica Leigh Sachs • Rahma Salie • Heather Lee Smith • Dianne Bullis Snyder • Douglas J. Stone • Xavier Suarez • Madeline Amy Sweeney • Michael Theodoridis • James Anthony Trentini • Mary Barbara Trentini • Pendyala Vamsikrishna • Mary Alice Wahlstrom • Kenneth E. Waldie • John Wenckus • Candace Lee Williams • Christopher Rudolph Zarba

August 30, 2008

Maudie Hopkins

Maudie Celia White Hopkins, one of the last known widows of a Confederate soldier, died on Aug. 17. Cause of death was not released. She was 93.

Born in Baxter County, Ark., Hopkins grew up in the Ozarks during the Great Depression. One of 10 children, she did laundry and cleaned houses to help her family put food on the table. One of her clients was William M. Cantrell, an elderly Confederate veteran and widower.

Cantrell was only 16 when he enlisted in the Confederate army to fight in the War Between the States. Assigned to Company A, French's Battalion, of the Virginia Infantry, he was captured by the Yankees at Piketon in Kentucky, and sent to a prison camp in Ohio. Cantrell was eventually exchanged for a Northern prisoner, and sent home to Arkansas.

Despite their 67-year age difference, Cantrell offered his hand in marriage. If Hopkins agreed to care for him in his final years, he would bequeath his land and home to her. In 1934, she consented to the marriage of convenience with "Mr. Cantrell," whom she described as a respectable man.

The couple lived off his Confederate pension of $25, which arrived in the mail every two to three months. When he died from a stroke in 1937, the pension benefits ended. Cantrell was true to his word, however, and gave his wife all of his worldly possessions, including 200 acres, some chickens and a mule named Kit. Hopkins survived by planting a vegetable garden and living off the land. The chickens provided enough eggs to sell, and she used the money to buy sugar and make jelly.

Hopkins wed three more times, and bore three children, two daughters and a son. A member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, she enjoyed sitting on her porch, attending religious services and making fried peach pies and applesauce cake.