Catherine LoGuidice

Cathy had a love for many things. She loved animals, music, and travelling. In her younger days, she chased rock stars like Robert Plant and the Black Crowes often getting their autographs and pictures. My sister loved animals. She worked part-time as a veterinary assistant. She was very adventurous. She liked mountain biking and even tried sky diving once. She was a caring person who often put the needs of her family and friends before her own. Cathy enjoyed horror movies and horror novels, especially Ann Rice novels. She enjoyed Tai Chi. She loved taking pictures of people and places that she tarvelled. She loved poems by Thoreau and once travelled to Walden Pond. She was godmother to her niece Nicole and Breanna, a friend's daughter. She loved celebrating holidays, especially Halloween. She would go all out with her costumes and wear false teeth and contact lenses. I consider my sister to be brave and courageous like the many people that she worked with. She was brave enough to return to the World Trade Center after the first bombing.

Cathy was an important link in our family chain. Through her, family members kept in contact. I know that Cathy would agree with me when I say don't mourn for her. Honor her life! You can do this by honoring the people she loved, listen to the music she loved, read the books she loved, and love the people she loved. My sister was one of the most caring and loving people I ever knew.
Tribute submitted by Dr. Michael LoGuidice.


C. LoGuidice, 30, tattoos and hard rock

She didn't have the usual mix of hobbies, but Catherine LoGuidice wouldn't have fit into easy categories anyway.

On weekends, she might be helping out a veterinarian or taking in a stray pet to go along with her four cats: Sylvester, Charlie, Se and Baby. Or she may very well be cranking up her favorite music, no less than the hard rock bands Led Zeppelin and the Black Crowes.

She liked tattoos. She had purple lilies across her lower back and a rose and sword on her ankle. And the Brooklyn resident worked in the heart of the New York financial center, as an assistant bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald in the World Trade Center.

Ms. LoGuidice was on the 105th floor of the North Tower on the morning of Sept. 11 when the first hijacked airliner struck the building. She was 30 years old.

"She loved life, she loved it to the fullest," said Roseann Spirito, Ms. LoGuidice's sister and a resident of Brick Township. "She loved it more than any of us."

Ms. LoGuidice was to be married on Oct. 19 to Erick Elberth, a tug boat captain whom she knew from their days together at Canarsie High School. Her recent wedding shower was attended by several friends who also were lost in the terrorist attack, said her sister.

The youngest of four children, Ms. LoGuidice worked at Cantor Fitzgerald for eight or nine years and was in the same office when the World Trade Center suffered the bombing in 1993. "She made it through the last one, and didn't really think about it since," Spirito said.

Ms. Lo Guidice also is survived by her parents, Catherine Masak of Lindenhurst, N.Y., and Carmelo LoGuidice of Brooklyn; sister, Lucy of Long Island, and a brother, Michael of York, Pa., and several nieces and nephews.

A memorial service was held on Sept. 20 at Cussimanno and Russo Funeral Home in Brooklyn. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Friends of Animals-ASPCA Disaster Fund, 424 East 92nd St., New York, N.Y., 10128.