A Legacy of Remembrance: September 11, 2001

GEORGE C. CAIN F.D.N.Y. May 13, 1966...Sept. 11, 2001 Happy 50th Birthday in Heaven Celebrating your special day with happy memories for the wonderful years we shared. You were and always will be a gift from Heaven and I am forever grateful for the wonderful, honorable man you were...Always so...

Sanford M. Stoller, 54, of New York City, an employee of Accenture.

She 'Thought He Was Safe' At a quarter to 8 on Sept. 11, Albert Conde was on the phone with his wife as he was every morning, reporting the details of his commute from Marlboro, N.J., and promising to check in later, once he settled into his day. When Diane Conde turned on the television at work...

Peripatetic Adventurer When Swarna Chalasani traveled — and she traveled a lot — it was never simply a vacation. It was an adventure. She rode white-water rapids in Colorado. She backpacked through Thailand. She taught herself Japanese and Spanish to prepare for her trips abroad. She read...

‘A Subtle Adventuress’ When her husband's chatter about buying a sailboat turned serious two years ago, Anne Rose Ransom — who disliked being on the water about as much as did her overweight pet, Pig Cat — decided it was time once again to stare down her fears. She signed up for a sailing class...

A Believer in Fitness There were a lot of sides to Jon Schlissel, and he was passionate about every one of them. He was religious about maintaining his health, and he exercised nearly every day. At 51, Mr. Schlissel had washboard abs and a physique that was the envy of his friends. He was also a...

Computer Linguist Peter A. Klein was the antithesis of a computer geek, despite the significant role that computers played in his life. The 35-year-old computer consultant, who once worked for I.B.M. and was working on a project for Marsh & McLennan on Sept. 11, had developed a natural...

King of Chess, Not Golf His nickname was Grandmaster. For anyone who dared to move a pawn against him, the reason was obvious. Lorenzo Ramzey played a daunting game of chess. Every day during his lunch hour, he challenged anyone to play. If no one was willing, that did not stop him. He dragooned...

Papa Bob at the Orphanage While many men his age pondered retiring to Florida or hitting the links in Arizona, Robert J. Ferris considered buying a house near an orphanage in Haiti. His wife of 38 years, Susanne, demurred. "I don't know if that would have worked out," she said. To Mr. Ferris, 63,...

No Fan of Fundamentalism Ehtesham Raja loved to party and loved his $70,000 BMW 740iL. He was a Muslim from Lahore, Pakistan, and worked for TCG Software in Bloomfield, N.J. Like many Muslims from India and Pakistan, Mr. Raja, 28, loved Hindi music. He sang it in the shower, and was also crazy...

A Kick Out of Everything From college on, it was Todd Isaac and Troy Dixon. Two young black men navigating the mostly white world of Wall Street traders. They played golf, they went to the Hamptons, but Mr. Dixon drew the line at attempting to ski. "Todd said: 'Why don't we learn to snowboard?...

Trading In a Toy Fire Truck When he was 5 years old, Peter Alexander Bielfeld had a tooth extracted. "Afterward, Peter was so upset," his father, Ernest, recalled. "It really hurt. So I took him to a toy store and said, 'You can have anything you want.' Peter went right for the fire trucks. He...

A Third Son to Die This is the week of the year when Jeffrey Shaw, his brother and a friend would head upstate to go deer hunting ‹ a tradition that began long ago when Mr. Shaw's father organized the trips. "He loved his hunting, he loved his golf, but there was no single thing about Jeff that...

New Home and First Baby Everything was going just right for Brian Terrenzi. Last February, he started a new job as a global network manager in the treasurer's office of Cantor Fitzgerald. Last April, he and his wife, Jane, bought their first home, in Hicksville, N.Y., and found out that she was...

Sold, but Not on the Car When Mary Gola walked into the Westbury Mazda dealership eight years ago, she knew which salesman she wanted: Anthony Perez. Six feet tall with dark Latin looks, he was exceedingly handsome. The trouble was, he knew less about Mazdas than she did. Mischievously, Ms. Gola...

Like a Kid, With Bagels To his co-workers at the Aon Corporation on the 93rd floor of 2 World Trade Center, Franklin Pershep was the Bagel Man. First he would bring in two or three dozen to celebrate someone's wedding, promotion or new baby, said his daughter, Stacy, then later, for no reason. He...

Felix (Bobby) Calixte, 38, of New York City, an employee of BP Air Conditioning.

Giving His Very Self Terrence P. Farrell lived close to the flame, said his brother Dennis. As a transit police officer, Terrence Farrell's specialty had been disasters. In the Fire Department, he joined Rescue Company 4, an elite unit specially trained to do things like extricate people from...

Multitalented Hands His hands. He could pretty much do anything with his hands. Build anything. Fix anything. Cook anything. Stephen F. Masi had gifted hands and the imagination to put them to innumerable good uses. "I don't know where he got it from," his wife, Joan, said. "He could just figure...

Close to Family, Literally James Woods stuck by his friends, his family and his sports teams, even when they were in the doghouse. When the Jets were the team everyone loved to hate, Mr. Woods would climb up to the nosebleed season-ticket seats he and his father returned to year after year. His...

Hector Tamayo loved to sing: Engelbert Humperdinck and Elton John, country music and campfire favorites, especially the one that begins, "Today, while the blossom still clings to the vine . . ." At home in Holliswood, Queens, he had a karaoke machine with thousands of songs. "He had a lot of...

Nancy Yuen Ngo, 36, of Harrington Park, New Jersey, a network consultant with Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.

Always at the Ready Summer and winter, morning, noon and night, Lt. Daniel O'Callaghan wore his thick black bunker pants around the Ladder Company 4 firehouse in Midtown Manhattan. "It would be 102 degrees out, and he'd be wearing his bunker gear," said Al Schwartz, a firefighter who drove the...

Fast Eddy From Lehigh Life was proceeding more or less on schedule for Edward R. Pykon and his wife, Jackie. They met 10 years ago on the Fourth of July, and last August they celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary. In 2000, again on the Fourth of July, they found out that they were going to...

Shouting With His Life To the casual acquaintance, Kevin Pfeifer had a manner ‹ a quiet, thoughtful demeanor ‹ that seemed of a piece with all the philosophy courses he took at Marist College. His gift for abstractions, though, was far exceeded by his taste for the concrete. And adventure. He...

Son's Cake and Candles Robert T. Lane was a man whose size might have been intimidating were it not for his magnetic smile. Name a sport, and this towering firefighter played it, but his favorite hobby was cooking. "He'd go to restaurants and try to duplicate their food back at the firehouse,"...

"We lost a good man." Father Higgins’ words are hard to keep down even ten months on. What’s worse, the memories tell us we lost so much more. Kevin Joseph Frawley, 34, was born a triplet, the fifth of six children. He graduated from Manhattan College in 1989 with a degree in Finance and began...

Man on the Town It is not that Ryan Fitzgerald kept secrets from his family, but as the oldest of three children who had just found his own place in Manhattan, he was savoring some newfound independence. The clues were on his credit card bills. Last month, when his mother opened his final bill,...

Business in the Blood Some grandfathers teach grandsons to fish. Terence E. Adderley Jr.'s taught him to read The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Adderley, known as Ted, was born with business in his blood and relished it. His grandfather, William Russell Kelly, founded Kelly Services, a temp agency...

DANIEL F. LIBRETTI, 43, of New York, a firefighter for the New York Fire Department, graduated from the New York Restaurant School in the mid-1990s and had a side job as an assistant pastry chef at a French restaurant in Manhattan. Fellow firefighters knew firsthand about his cooking skills. "He...

Sports and Reading After Thomas H. McGinnis and his wife, Iliana, scrimped, saved and bought their dream house in Oakland, N.J., in 1999, he left the decorating details to her, all except for the entertainment center. That demanded extensive research, his specialty, and he ended up with a wide-...

Thomas McCann, 46, of Woodside, New York, a firefighter with the New York Fire Department and Trustee for Exhibition Employees Local 829.

Planning for Two Andrea Haberman and Allen Kolodzik were engaged last April in the gazebo at St. Norbert's College in Wisconsin, where they met freshman year. At first, she thought he was weird, Mr. Kolodzik said, but by sophomore year they were dating. Sixteen months was not too much time to...

James P. Hopper, of Farmingdale, New York, an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald.

She 'Gapped' Generations Nicknamed "The Gap," Jackie Sayegh Duggan was the oldest grandchild -- and the only girl -- in both of her parents' families. "Grandparents to parents to cousins. She organized all the family events," said George Sayegh, her father. "The Christmas parties, the...

Lizette Mendoza, 33, of North Bergen, New Jersey, an employee of Aon Corp.

Dream Job in Twin Towers It was something about those two buildings. Years ago, when Ganesh Ladkat lived in Pune, India, those mighty symbols of commerce took hold of his imagination. After studying computer science, meeting his future wife, Sonia Gawas in 1995, and graduating in 1998, Mr. Ladkat...

The Spiritual Sort As a child, Andy J. Kim developed his musical talents. He played piano, clarinet and guitar. During high school, he was in the marching band, the jazz band and the orchestra. At Columbia University, where he studied engineering and finance, he developed his spiritual side,...

Love and Basketball There was no getting around the basketball. That was a given, right from the start. When Charlene Kirk met her husband-to-be, Michael C. Fiore, in 1976, he was playing in a half-dozen leagues. He had games six or seven days a week, putting points on the board. About the only...

Everyone's Best Friend Christina Donovan Flannery was not your stereotypical New Yorker; she was friendly. "It was like she came from some place where you were supposed to talk to everyone," said Brian Flannery, her husband of three months. The couple commuted together every day from their home...

To the Shoreline of Kauai When Kayla turned 6 in 1999, William and Laura Fallon decided it was all right to start taking long trips. The resulting trip to the Grand Canyon was Kayla's first long airplane ride and the first of a series of trips to national parks for the Fallons. This year, they...

Big, Fast and Reassuring Keith Fairben was the adrenaline kid, always on the run, said his mother, Diane. He would get home from his job as a paramedic for New York Presbyterian Hospital, get on the cellphone, the home phone and his e- mail all at once, and then field calls from all his friends...

Mr. Mom's Fire Truck When Wendy Feinberg recalls meeting Alan D. Feinberg 21 years ago, she remembers not only the man, but also his car — a sharp Datsun 240-Z. From that encounter in the parking lot of a Sheepshead Bay diner came marriage, children and a life for Mr. Feinberg as both a...

Friend of 'The Far Side' You always knew when Francis Jude Feely was around by his distinctive laugh, a deep and loud guffaw. An accountant at Marsh & McLennan, Mr. Feely was a huge fan of "The Far Side," and would bring cartoons applicable to members of the family at gatherings. "Every year...

A Day Off for Kindergarten A year ago today, Lisa King-Johnson's younger daughter, Katie, was starting kindergarten, and so she took the day off from her job at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower. She got Katie dressed for school and was there...

Satoshi Kikuchihara, 43, of Scarsdale, New York.

Arthur J. Jones, 37, of Ossining, New York, an employee of Carr Futures.

Lucky Beyond the Odds Doug Jason Irgang had the kind of jaw-dropping luck that could win a lottery, or save a life. A financial trader, he was there when the trade center was bombed in 1993. And he was on board the Long Island Rail Road train when Colin Ferguson went on a rampage. "Talk about...

Luis Clodoaldo Revilla Mier was born on August 19, 1947. He was 54 years old. He lived at 1074 Mile Square Rd, Yonkers, N.Y. 10704. He worked for Washington Group International Inc, as a Computer Designer Level III, for 26 years, at Two World Trade Center Building, 91st floor. Luis is survived by...

'Fireman Bob' Robert McPadden liked to be tested. He did not wait to see if he could withstand challenges — he sought them out. He liked comparing his personal favorites to the critics' Top 10 lists. He was so good at "Jeopardy!" that other firefighters thought he was watching reruns of shows he...