The Lives of 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...

'Some Kind of Moves' When Moises Rivas first laid eyes on Elizabeth, it was at a local beauty pageant in Queens, and he was the lead singer of the band. He was smitten, and made a $50 bet with another band member that he would get her to go out with him. "When he finished singing he came down...

The Best Catch of All Babita Guman was the type who "doesn't back down," said her husband, Deodat Guman. When a fellow shopper at a market once told her to go back to her country, Mrs. Guman, 33, threw the question back at her. "Why don't you go back to your country?" she asked. A native of...

Passion for Food Anette Dataram worked in accounting for Windows on the World at 1 World Trade Center and planned to pursue a bachelor's degree to further her career as an accountant. But the 25- year-old's real passion seemed to be food ‹ not that served at the famous restaurant where she...

Thomas Michael Kelly, an employee of Euro Brokers Inc.

Janice Marie Scott was born on October 12, 1945, in Memphis Tennessee. In 1954, her mother moved the family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she attends the local public schools until her early teen years. Janice then moved with her family in the 1970s to Colorado Springs, Colorado. There, she...

An Eternal Optimist As one of Booz, Allen & Hamilton's most respected consultants, Gerald P. Fisher never saw the need to dress for success. "He was a character," said Joyce Doria, a senior vice president who supervised Mr. Fisher at the firm's Mclean, Va., office. "Geep," as friends and co-...

Xavier Suarez, 41, of Chino Hills, California, a civil engineer.

There was nothing Antionette "Toni" Sherman loved more than ending her day with an impromptu fishing trip. After a long day crunching numbers in the Pentagon, Sherman would pick up her foster son and fishing gear and head to her favorite spot. At 35, Sherman filled her life with the things she...

Unstoppable 78 She extracted the maximum out of life. Up at 5 in the morning, reading, traveling, debating current events, going to the movies. As Scott Wahlstrom said about his mother, Mary Alice Wahlstrom, "She was a ball of fire." She was 78. "She could have lived another 25 years," he said....

On the Way to Hollywood How to comprehend the terrible symmetry that returned Candace Lee Williams to the place of her triumph, the World Trade Center? A 20-year-old student in the cooperative work-study program at Northeastern University in Boston, she toiled from January to June at Merrill...

Fulfilled by Acts of Kindness Yamel Merino had a soft, sweet voice and a gentle smile, yet she could be as strong as a bull. She had to lift heavy patients onto gurneys in her job as an emergency medical technician. She knew her job was dangerous. Every night, she prayed for God to protect her...

In a Brother's Footsteps Thomas Hannafin was a high school and college basketball star on Staten Island. When he followed his eldest brother, Kevin, into the Fire Department, he joined Ladder Company 5 in Greenwich Village. The captain there, John Drennan, a football coach on Staten Island, was...

Spirit of a Traveler One year, before he moved to New Jersey, he took his mother to New York. One year he took her to Washington for a tour of the White House. Some years, she would simply visit his apartment and cook. This year, for their annual vacation, Mary Keohane and her son, John, 41, were...

On what would have been Louis J. Nacke's first wedding anniversary, he was feted with his favorite food and wine by the family he left behind. "He would have wanted us to do it this way," said Nacke's father-in-law, Robert Weisberg. "It was very poignant, and we will always remember him." Nacke,...

Handyman and Lawyer Capt. Walter Hynes was the person his extended family relied on for everything. If you needed your plumbing fixed or a room painted, Walter would do it. He would change your tire. He was the family lawyer. He even met his wife while lending a hand: he was helping another...

Almost Parents Rahma Salie, of Sri Lankan descent, grew up in Japan. Michael Theodoridis, of Greek descent, grew up in Switzerland. She was a Muslim; he converted to Islam before they married in 1998. They had received some good news a few months earlier. Ms. Salie, 28, a graduate of Wellesley...

Lt. Glenn Wilkinson, 46, of Bayport, New York, a firefighter with the New York Fire Department.

The Big Red Truck Henry Jr., who was known as Bill or Buddy, had a galaxy of friends and admirers that stretched from the Ladder 24 firehouse on West 31st Street to the paddle tennis courts at wind-swept Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways. He spent his vacations in places like Brazil, and his free...

A Dream Accomplished "The first time I met him, I told people I had met a man that was 10 feet tall," Maria Barreto said about her fiancé, Lt. Dennis Mojica, who was 5 feet 11 inches tall. She carefully outlines the story of his life: his mother died when he was a year old. He graduated from the...

A Motorcycle Man's Ritual f you missed the muscle-bound guy with six tattoos, smirk tucked under his mustache, roaring around on a Harley-Davidson, Manny Mo — as Manuel Mojica Jr. was known — had one more way to announce himself. Without using his fingers, he could whistle so forcefully that he...

Donna Bowen, 42, of Waldorf, Maryland, a Pentagon communications representative with Verizon Communications.

Scent of a Firefighter Louis Arena loved being a firefighter, and one of the ways he showed it was this: He would return to his Staten Island home from Ladder Company 5 and tell his wife, Wanda, "Smell my head." Mrs. Arena, 31, was crazy about the way her husband smelled, especially after a fire....

John J. Chada, 55, of Manassas, Virginia, a civilian employee with U.S. Army.

Answering a Daughter's Call Richard Prunty's world revolved around two families. There was his family in Sayville, on Long Island, and there was the Second Battalion of the New York City Fire Department. Mr. Prunty, the battalion chief, would explain to his wife, Susan, that his life depended on...

Striking Out on His Own Twenty-eight-year-old John Reo was just about to strike out on his own. He had recently started a job as a bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald and he was scheduled to move into an apartment in the East Village this month. "He was so excited," said his brother-in-law, Richard...

The Name Meant Something When Lt. Michael Warchola was a child in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, his grandmother brought British tabloid newspapers into the house. Paging through the tales of three-headed babies and ichthyological anthropomorphism, he developed a passion for reading and a flair for the...

One Who Spoke His Mind John Charles Willett was the youngest county treasurer in the history of Missouri. Mr. Willett, fresh out of college, was appointed in 1993 by the governor to mind the finances of Taney County. The county is almost all Republican, and when young Mr. Willett, a Democrat,...

Rosemary Chapa, 64, of Springfield, Va., had worked in the Pentagon for 20 years, the last as a high-ranking civilian employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Her section's offices moved within the last month to the first floor of the newly renovated section of the Pentagon, the part of the...

Scott Powell worked on computers at the Pentagon, but his first love was music. The 35-year-old grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Washington's Duke Ellington School of the Arts. He composed songs, most of them rhythm and blues, and played more than a half-dozen instruments from...

Cortz Ghee, 54, of Reisterstown, Maryland, a civilian employee with the U.S. Army.

Gregg Harold Smallwood, 44, of Overland Park, Kansas, a chief information systems technician in the U.S. Navy.

Deborah Ramsaur, 45, of Annandale, Virginia, a civilian employee of the U.S. Army.

Lt. Commander David Lucian Williams, 32, of Newport, Oregon, U.S. Navy.

A photo of Angela Houtz, 27, a civilian naval employee at the Pentagon, still hangs in her Maryland high school, where she graduated as salutatorian in 1992. Houtz was working at the Pentagon on Tuesday when the hijacked plane struck the building. Davis A. Rice, who taught her Latin for four...

Maj. Kip Taylor was excited about the coming months for two reasons very dear to him: the birth of his second child in late October and a promotion in November. Now, his wife, Nancy, and family are gathered in his McLean, Va., home waiting to receive word that Taylor's remains have been...

Sandra C. Taylor, 50, of Alexandria, Virginia, a civilian employee with the U.S. Army.

Linda Gronlund was a sailor, a scuba diver, a brown belt in karate, a lawyer, a car mechanic, a gardener, a photographer, a gourmet cook, a guitarist, an emergency medical technician and a volunteer with autistic children. She planned to start piano lessons in the fall. As manager of...

Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr., born May 29, 1963 in Minneapolis, MN, died heroically on September 11, 2001. Tom is survived by his devoted wife, Deena; his 3 beautiful daughters, Halley, Madison and Anna Clare; his parents, Tom and Beverly Burnett; his sister, Mary Margaret and her fiance, Chad...

Former police officer CeeCee Lyles, a flight attendant, called her husband to say she loved him just before her aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania. "Just hearing my wife saying she loved us through all that chaos on that plane is just embedded in my heart forever," said Lorne Lyles, her husband and...

Sandy Bradshaw was a flight attendant for United Airlines. She was 38 and married to a pilot. The couple lived in Greensboro with their two young children.

Jeremy Glick, 31, of West Milford, New Jersey.

Willie Troy, 51, of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, a program analyst with the U.S. Army.

Col. Ron Golinski, 60, of Columbia, Maryland, a civilian employee with the U.S. Army.

'I Have to Help' On Sept. 11, Mitchel Wallace, a court officer in State Supreme Court, was arriving for work at 111 Center Street when he saw a plane hit the World Trade Center. He ran to help. It was a typical reaction for Mr. Wallace, 34. He had saved lives before. Trained as an emergency...

Lorraine G. Bay, 58, of East Windsor, New Jersey, a flight attendant with United Airlines.

Daniel and Ron and their son, David; victims of United Airlines Flight #175 on September 11, 2001. Dear friends of Donato Tramuto and Jeffrey Porter of Ogunquit. A celebration of their lives will held on Saturday, October 6th at 11 o'clock at the Ogunquit Baptist Church, 175 Shore Road, Ogunquit....

Mark Rothenberg of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, owner of MDR Global Resources.

Born with a form of dwarfism, Colleen Fraser stood less than 4 feet tall. She walked with a cane, which she would shake wildly to make a point. Often that point was making the world friendlier to people with disabilities. Fraser clearly had a flair for it. "She was a firebrand," said longtime...

Daniel and Ron and their son, David; victims of United Airlines Flight #175 on September 11, 2001. Dear friends of Donato Tramuto and Jeffrey Porter of Ogunquit. A celebration of their lives will held on Saturday, October 6th at 11 o'clock at the Ogunquit Baptist Church, 175 Shore Road, Ogunquit....