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From The Daily Times
Delaware County Remembers 9/11
09/11/2004
By WILLIAM BENDER wbender@delcotimes.com Three years after the Sept. 11,
2001 terrorist attacks, Steve Horn still can’t clear his mind of what he
saw that day in New York City, when al-Qaida terrorists hijacked two
airliners and crashed them into the twin 110-story towers of the World
Trade Center.
While making a delivery on 35th and Broadway, Horn, a truck driver from
Upper Chichester, looked up and saw a plane flying so low it seemed to
be "skimming the tops of the buildings."
"Within minutes the chaos started," said Horn, 47, a volunteer
firefighter with Lower Chichester Fire Co. who still shudders to think
how each life ended inside the twin towers.
The response of emergency personnel was immediate, so when he saw the
plumes of smoke rising from ground zero, he knew "that smoke was
carrying the spirits of those heroes right to heaven."
Approximately one hour after the first plane struck the north tower of
the trade center, American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon. United
Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pa. about a
half-hour later,
To forget the more than 3,000 people who died on Sept. 11 and the
bravery displayed by firefighters and police officers would only
compound the tragedy, Horn said.
"As an American citizen and as patriotic as I am, I just feel everybody
should keep it fresh in their minds for the families and friends of
those people that died that day, not only in New York but also in the
field in Pennsylvania and the Pentagon," he said.
Delaware County Park Police Chief Samuel Ziviello has noticed the
difference between this Sept. 11 and the first and second anniversaries.
"You seldom hear of it being discussed anymore" among private citizens,
Ziviello said. "My personal opinion is that we should remind the
American people every year of what took place."
Monsignor Frank Barszczewski and members of Sacred Heart Parish in
Clifton Heights will be doing just that today at 4:45 p.m. Barszczewski
will lead a procession from the church to the 9/11 monument that was
donated by parishioners immediately after the attacks.
The ceremony will include a reading of Thomas Jefferson’s "Prayer for
the Nation," a rendition of "God Bless America" and a moment of silence,
Barszczewski said.
"It is something that probably will remain in our psyche like Pearl
Harbor" when 2,403 Americans were killed. "More people were lost in 9/11
than Pearl Harbor and I don’t know that it is something that is ever
going to go away. I think it will always be part of us."
With the recent deaths of more than 330 Russians at the hands of Chechen
separatists in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Barszczewski said this
year’s anniversary will also be a time to pray for an end to global
terrorism.
He knows local residents still remember 9/11 because he sees them park
their cars in the evening and walk up to the monument, which sits under
a spotlight on Broadway Avenue in Clifton Heights.
"They will take a moment to come over and maybe read it and reflect on
it, then walk away and go about their business," he said.
Rich Felpel, a sales manager from Salem, New Hampshire, who was visiting
his mother, Elizabeth, in Springfield Friday, said the worst terrorist
attack in American history is beginning to fade three years later, but
the threat of another strike keeps the nation on guard.
"People are still a little apprehensive, it’s always on our minds,"
Felpel said. "At the same time, the country is moving on. And that’s
just human nature, not because we don’t care about it."
Rosemary Kehoe of Glenolden will pause today to remember "how lucky we
are to live in a nice, safe country" that has been free of terrorist
attacks for the past three years. "I don’t feel as upset as I did" in
past years, she said.
Sept. 11 will always have a direct impact on firefighters like Dan
O’Brien, 18, a member of Aston-Beechwood Fire Co. since he was 14 years
old.
"We reflect on everything that happened, the brothers and sisters that
were lost," O’Brien said. "That’s why you always see ‘Remember 343.’
It’s for the 343 firefighters that lost their lives. We do the same job,
and it could have been us in there."
©The Daily Times 2004
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Both my wife and I knew Patty and are saddened by this news. We haven't seen her in months. Read on and if you feel generous, please donate to her fund for her Daughters Natalie and Nicole.
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Daughter’s benefit for mom suddenly takes
somber turn
By KATHLEEN E. CAREY , kcarey@delcotimes.com
09/10/2004
CLIFTON HEIGHTS -- In April, Patricia Lawrence White, 47, was diagnosed
with breast cancer.
A month earlier, her mom, Phyllis Sheehan, 74, was taken to the
emergency room with what her family thought was a bad case of the flu.
It was actually non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Sheehan kept asking how her middle daughter was doing, as her hair
thinned due to the chemotherapy she started at the beginning of May.
"I’m OK," White would respond with her trademark smile.
On May 28, Sheehan died. Thursday, her daughter joined her, leaving two
young daughters behind.
Now, proceeds from a weekend benefit that had been planned to lighten
medical and other expenses will go toward paying for a funeral.
"They were both dying and they didn’t know," said Barbara Lancella,
White’s older sister.
Last week, family friend Anne Killeen decided to organize a benefit for
4 p.m. Sunday at the Bungalow Inn in Clifton Heights.
White, a single mother, had lost her job as a waitress and bartender
after she cared for her mother and continued to weaken. She had no
health or life insurance, and the medical bills were piling up.
After undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, she spent a month at
Delaware County Memorial Hospital, with her daughters, Natalie, 21, and
Nicole Grosso, 24, by her side.
White came home to her brick townhouse on Madison Avenue on Friday and
hospice was called to help. At 3 a.m. Thursday, when her family went to
check on her, they realized she had died.
"We thought the chemo would control it and give her a couple of years,"
Natalie said. "It went to her brain. The chemo didn’t help."
So as the Grossos plan their mom’s Monday funeral, they also are trying
to help do what they can for Sunday’s benefit, to save the house their
mom loved and to provide a fitting funeral for the woman whose sense of
humor touched so many.
"We thought she’d still be here but we’ve got everybody going," Natalie
Grosso said. "I guess we’ve got to keep it."
Tickets are $20 at the door or at the Cliffside Inn in Springfield,
where $1 chances are also being sold. Admission to the benefit includes
an open bar during the Eagles game as well as food and door prizes.
Besides the funeral, the girls are hoping to preserve the house their
mom worked two, and sometimes three, jobs to keep for them. They moved
there from Southwest Philadelphia 10 years ago.
Natalie Grosso said mortgage insurance covered the July and August
payments but September’s has not yet been paid.
"They turned it over to a collection agency," Grosso said of the
mortgage company. "It’s $785 a month. We owe $65,000. I don’t want to
lose the house. She worked so hard for it."
The girls themselves postponed their studies and reduced their workload
to tend to their mom as her condition worsened.
"Natalie and Nicole were by her side," White’s sister Robin Banner said.
"They gave up school, work and they dedicated themselves to their
mother. They were in the hospital every night."
Nicole had been going to school for radiology and had to cut her hours
as a patient care technician at Bryn Mawr Hospital as she cared for her
mom and her 5-year-old son, Cassius Cardillo.
"You just can’t concentrate when something like that is going on," she
said.
Natalie also suspended her criminal justice studies to be with her mom
and had to decrease her work bartending and waitressing at the Hilton
Hotel on Island Avenue in Philadelphia.
Both Natalie and Nicole spent whatever time they had tending to their
mother. At the hospital, they each slept on either side of her.
"I’m very proud of my nieces," Lancella said. "They held their mother in
the palms of their hands. They cleaned her. They took care of her, like
it was the most precious thing in their life. My sister had the best
care there was."
Several family members said the 1975 West Catholic graduate will best be
remembered for her wit during her arduous battle with cancer, which
eventually spread throughout her body.
"Mom was real sick going through treatment," Natalie Grosso said. "She
wouldn’t take the morphine. The tumors in her brain confused her."
The family is now hoping White will be able to rest in peace as they
plan to use money raised over the weekend to pay for her final good-bye.
"The funeral expenses are my main concern," Natalie Grosso said about
her motivation for Sunday’s event. "It’s expensive to bury somebody."
The sisters said they want to keep the services as inexpensive as
possible, but they still want to honor the mother they loved so much.
"We just wanted to have a nice burial," Nicole Grosso said. And, with
the help of a community, that might just happen.
To help pay for the funeral, donations can be sent to the John J.
McFadden Funeral Home, 7 Springfield Road, Aldan, PA 19018. Also, food
donations are needed for the benefit. For more information, call (610)
259-9747.
Tickets are $20 to get into the event at the Bungalow Inn at 403 W.
Baltimore Pike. They and $1 chances for a myriad of gift certificates to
local restaurants and bars and a night at the Hilton are available at
the Cliffside Inn on Springfield Road by the trolley tracks. Tickets can
also be purchased at the Bungalow door 4 p.m. Sunday.
©The Daily Times 2004
Obituary information:
WHITE, Patricia A. (nee
Sheehan) On September 9, 2004. Of Clifton Hts., PA. Mother of Nicole and
Natalie, grandmother of Cassius, sister of Barbara Lancella and Robbin
Banner. Relatives and friends are invited to her Funeral Mass on Monday
10:15 AM Church of St. Eugene, Oak Ave., Primos, PA. Interment Ss. Peter
& Paul Cem. Friends may call in the church from 9:30 AM. (McFADDEN
FUNERAL HOME)
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