Wilbert Miraille

Devoted to Job and Faith

Wilbert Miraille, 29, lived in a room in a Harlem apartment rented by Manol and Renee Delbrun. In such close quarters, they could have developed a testy relationship. Instead, it was quite warm. "I liked him; my wife liked him," Mr. Delbrun said. "We suffered when he died." The night before the attack on the World Trade Center, Mr. Delbrun found Mr. Miraille staying up later than usual. "I tell him at 9:15, `Hey, my friend, go to sleep. You've got to go to work early,' " Mr. Delbrun recalled. "He said, `O.K., Buster, I'm going to sleep right now.' "

But he went to work early every morning, said his ex-wife, Antoinette Mitchell, 26. He would leave at 4:30 a.m., she said, for his job in Cantor Fitzgerald's mailroom on the 101st floor of 1 World Trade Center and arrive home at 4:15 p.m. "He was dedicated to his job," Ms. Mitchell said. "He never let his job down."

An immigrant from Haiti, Mr. Miraille was an usher at the 1 p.m. Haitian Mass at the Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church on the Upper West Side. On a recent Sunday, Wilbert Audry sat at a table in the church's vestibule before the service and recalled a deeply religious and outgoing man. "He used to stand right here behind me," he said. "Then I came here one day and they don't see him."