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09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to Dan Brandhorst, Who Brought Us Joy
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A family tragically lost, rememberedDan Brandhorst, Ron Gamboa and their adopted son David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst died aboard United Flight 175 when it crashed into the World Trade Center.By Malaika Costello-DoughertyThree-year-old David Brandhorst used to ask for a big hug and then would grab the other person and squeeze."The big hug became squeezing and shaking, it was the way he did everything, so hard that he started to shake," friend Ken Yood says.David Brandhorst and his fathers -- Dan Brandhorst and Ron Gamboa -- died aboard United flight 175, the second hijacked plane to crash into the World Trade Center, at 9:03 a.m. on Sept. 11.The family was returning to Los Angeles from Boston after spending a weekend at a friend's waterfront house in Ogunquit, Maine."It is so big that we cannot process it," friend Bernie Cummings says of the tragedy. "What we can process is this little boy."David was considered the "king of the slide" at West Hollywood Park -- "David's playground." The Legos that he loved to play with while his fathers brunched at Hugo's on Santa Monica Boulevard are similarly called "David's Legos." David would help feed the fish at Hugo's and many of the waiters came to the family's memorial last week.David was "a moose" who looked 4 when he was only 2, Yood says of the boy he remembers running around smiling and having a good time."Everybody knew David. He was very much the ring leader," Yood says."He just was the pied piper of children," Cummings says."They loved each other intensely but David was it," Cummings says. "They really got what it meant to be parents."The Brandhorst-Gamboa family were founding members of the Pop Luck Club, a community for existing families and a support group for gay men looking to adopt. Yood is now the president of the Pop Luck Club, which he says, has "proven itself to be such a comfort, such a support."When Yood and his partner adopted a child, Brandhorst and Gamboa arrived first at the hospital. Gamboa brought flowers for the birth mother. The couple then loaned David's bassinet to the new parents."They presented a model of how to be a family for us," Yood says. "Dan and Ron made that dream attainable for us.... When I walk down the street and I see other families like ours, I see Dan and Ron's legacy."The Brandhorst-Gamboa family lived in the Hollywood Hills and was famous for their parties, making people feel at home and spontaneous picnics. Brandhorst, a lawyer, made junior partner at PriceWaterhouse accounting firm. Gamboa worked at The Gap for 10 years and became the regional manager. The couple loved to shop.Yood describes Brandhorst and Gamboa as the "perfect foil...where Dan was uptight and driven, Ron was laidback and relaxed.""They were a constant in our lives and the lives of I can't tell you how many," Yood says. "Every Sunday at St. Victor's Mass. Every Saturday and possibly Sunday they went to Hugo's for brunch. Every Saturday Dan would take David to swim classes at the Y. Every Friday night was date night for them.""They had hit a place in their lives that most of us aspire to," Cummings says. "A wonderful group of friends, successful jobs, parents. They loved life, loved their jobs, loved each other but most of all they loved David."A memorial service was held at St. Victor's last Tuesday. More than 500 people were at the service which Yood says hoped "to do some of the work that Dan had left undone...to tell what it meant to be a gay family in West Hollywood and participate in that kind of way, what kind of legacy they leave."About 150 people went to Cummings' house afterwards, and he says he opened his house because it is what Brandhorst and Gamboa would have done.A memorial service was held in Brandhorst's hometown of Syracuse, N.Y., and another at Gamboa's old high school in Kentucky. A tree planting and memorial is planned for next week in Ogunquit, Maine."It is truly amazing how many people can be touched by the lives of so few," Yood says. 🙏 🗽REMEMBERING THE FALLEN, THE HEROES, AND THE UNBREAKABLE SPIRIT OF AMERICA. ❤️

09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to Michelle Renee Bratton, Forever in Our Hearts
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Michelle Renee Bratton who was also known as "Shelly" was an Executive Assistant for Cantor Fitzgerald's eSpeed division which was located on the 105th floor inside of the North Tower. Wednesday, April 26, 1978—Tuesday, September 11, 2001. 23 years, 4 months, and 16 days. 280 months, 16 days. A total of 8,539 days of life.
"William Bratton Jr. and his wife, Mary Bratton, reminisced about their daughter Michelle Renee Bratton, who started working Aug. 6 as an executive assistant at eSpeed, a division of Cantor Fitzgerald.
"She was a big fan of Madonna," Mr. Bratton said. "I remember in August she drove down to Washington, D.C., for a Madonna concert."
His wife continued. "She called us in the middle of the concert, held the phone up and said, `Listen to this!' "
Ms. Bratton dived competitively in college, worked as a lifeguard and was a "sun goddess," her mother said. And "a pretty good shopper, too," her father said.
At the State University of New York College at Oswego, she belonged to the Sigma Delta Tau sorority. "She would mentor new sorority people, get them ready for rush, and keep them strong," Mrs. Bratton said. "She would always be the one behind them giving them that extra push."
She loved working in the city, that life-at-your-fingertips feeling it brings, her mother said: "Every single day, she went from dawn till dusk. When she did take time off, she would sleep for 15 hours. You couldn't wake her up."
Ms. Bratton, who shared an apartment with her sister in Yonkers, planned to get a master's degree so she could become a teacher and a diving coach. She was 23." (RIP) 🇺🇸🗽SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 — A DAY WE WILL FOREVER REMEMBER. HONORING THE DECEASED, THE BRAVE, AND THE COHESIVE SPIRIT OF A NATION. ❤️🙏

09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to Patrice Braut, A Life of Grace
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Patrice Braut was born on August 8, 1970 in Brussels, Belgium to Michel and Paola. He was an only child, born after three failed pregnancies. He recieved his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Pace University and worked for Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. on the 97th floor of the north World Trade Center tower. Per his parents, "He was very successful and went after the American Dream. Every year he climbed a floor." He loved to travel, play soccer, and take photographs, especially of the WTC.
In 1997, Patrice met Lupe Mendez at a company Christmas party. The two danced and she left before he learned her surname. The next day, she found a note on her desk in Midtown, saying, "You left without saying goodbye." The two started dating, and Patrice took her to Belgium to meet his parents. In the first week of September 2001, the two, living in the Riverdale neighborhood of Bronx, New York, went house-hunting in the suburbs. 🙏 🗽REMEMBERING THE FALLEN, THE HEROES, AND THE UNBREAKABLE SPIRIT OF AMERICA. ❤️

09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to Lydia Bravo Obituary, Our Guiding Star
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APassion for FoodThe night before the planes hit, Lydia Bravo cooked a pot of ribollita, the Tuscan stew of beans and greens. She and her fiancé, Anthony Bengivenga -- "she called me Antonio" -- opened a bottle of Sangiovese. They had just returned from a week in Mexico. Ms. Bravo, a nurse at Marsh & McLennan, returned to work on Tuesday, Sept. 11.They would have been together 11 years this month, Mr. Bengivenga said. Both had been married before, both had grown children. They had found in each other a passion for all things passionate -- the films of Pedro Almodóvar, flamenco music and food. All kinds of food.Ms. Bravo, 50, was a devoted cook. She had taken classes at Peter Kumps. She had hundreds of cookbooks -- some picked up at flea markets, others on trips abroad. Whenever they went to Italy she peeked into kitchens and chatted up the cooks. At home in Dunellen, N.J., she cooked elaborate meals."That was really her forte," Mr. Bengivenga said. "I would help. I enjoyed being in the kitchen with her." She taught him a few things, but not nearly enough, he said.Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on October 12, 2001.Lydia Estelle Bravo, 50, life was a feastThanksgiving at Lydia Estelle Bravo's house was always a big event, her daughter Mia Gonzalez recalled.In her Dunellen home, Ms. Bravo had three bookcases full of nothing but cookbooks that she had collected over the years.She had a lifelong interest of preparing food that included taking courses at the Peter Kump School of Cooking in Manhattan (now the Institute of Culinary Education), where she studied Italian and French cooking."She always made a big five- course Thanksgiving dinner. It was a big event," said Gonzalez, 32, of Manhattan.On Sept. 10, a day after Ms. Bravo and her fiancée, Anthony Bengivenga, returned from another of their vacation trips to Mexico, she prepared a stew based on a recipe from the Tuscany region of Italy."We enjoyed that with a Tuscany wine," recall Bengivenga of Green Brook. "She had a certain laugh. If you mention her laugh, everybody who knew her will know it. She got everybody laughing."One day after preparing the stew, Ms. Bravo, 50, returned to her job as an occupational nurse with the Comprehensive Health Service of Marsh & McLennan on the 94th floor of the World Trade Center, where she perished in the terrorist attack.A Mass for Ms. Bravo will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. John's Roman Catholic Church in Dunellen."We were like sisters, like best friends," Ms. Bravo's daughter said. "It's a huge loss for everybody who knew her. She always had a smile on her face. People who weren't sick would come to her in the medical department (at Marsh & McLennan) just to see her," Gonzalez said.Each Mother's Day, Ms. Bravo visited her daughter in Manhattan and the two would usually go out for dinner and then to Lincoln Center to see a foreign-language movie.Bengivenga said he and his fiancée enjoyed films from Italy, Spain and France. The couple, who often traveled outside the country, were so familiar with the foreign languages they often didn't need movie sub-titles, Bengivenga said. "For the Italian films, not at all, and for Spanish films, only a little," he added.Ms. Bravo was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from Manhattan College as a registered nurse and worked for eight years in the oncology unit of Cornell Medical Center, New York City.Bengivenga met Ms. Bravo while she was working at the medical center. "We used to celebrate the anniversary of when we met. This month would have been our 11th anniversary," Bengivenga said.Before working at March & McLennan, she was employed at the World Trade Center by Solomon, Smith Barney and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.Ms. Bravo moved to Green Brook in 1991 and moved to Dunellen three years later.Along with her fiancée and her daughter, Ms. Bravo is survived by two brothers, Albert Bravo of Queens and Edward Bravo of Dunellen; and two sisters, Norma Bravo-Reifel of Smithtown, N.Y., and Leticia Muszel of Flushing, N.Y. ❤️🗽 IN MEMORY, IN HONOR, IN UNITY — WE STAND TOGETHER AS ONE NATION. 🇺🇸

09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to Ronald, Loved and Remembered
Ronald and Kristen Breitweiser were married five years ago in bathing feet "on a little sand spit in the middle of nowhere," Mrs. Breitweiser recalled. After years of marriage, the two continued to act like newlyweds. Each wsuits and bare eekday, Mr. Breitweiser, 39, would return from his job as a senior vice president at Fiduciary Trust International at 2 World Trade Center, sit on the living room couch in Middletown Township, N.J., and snuggle with his wife for a few minutes. They called each other "Sweets."
"I don't think we ever used our real names," recalled Mrs. Breitweiser, who was a lawyer before she gave up her job to raise their daughter, Caroline, who is now 2 and nicknamed Bug, after the way she used to crawl.
When Caroline woke up at night, Mr. Breitweiser would rub her back until she fell asleep. Sometimes he chased the family's golden retriever, Sam, to make her giggle. On Sept. 8, the family went to a nearby beach at Sandy Hook. Mr. Breitweiser pointed to two gray rectangles in the distance. "Look, that's where Daddy works," he said.
Some of Mr. Breitweiser's remains, including his wedding ring, were recovered from ground zero in October. The authorities gave Mrs. Breitweiser her husband's ring, which she wears on her right hand. Her own wedding ring stays where it was, on her left.
Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on March 17, 2002.
RONALD BREITWEISER, 39, PUT FAMILY FIRST
Ronald M. Breitweiser was a Norman Rockwell fan, and a look at his life suggests he was on his way to becoming one of those portraits of small-town bliss. He had a house in Middletown, a wife named Kristen, a baby girl named Caroline Whitney and a golden retriever named Sam.
Every morning, before he left for work, he would kiss his wife good-bye before smooching Sam on the nose. "Okay, Sammy," Mr. Breitweiser, 39, would say. "You're in charge of our girls. You take care of them when I'm gone. You're the man of the house."
He did exactly that on the morning of Sept. 11, before he left for his job at the World Trade Center as a senior vice president with Fiduciary Trust Company International. At 8:50 a.m., after the first plane hit, he called his wife to say he was okay.
At 9:40, the phone rang again. It was an open cellular phone line. Kristen Breitweiser didn't know if it was her husband, but she spoke like he was listening. "I told him that I loved him, that he was the love of my life, that we were home waiting for him . . . I hope if it was him, he could hear me."
He was born in Rutherford, where he went to school, and graduated with a business degree from the University of Delaware. Five years ago, he met Kristen through friends at a beach in Sea Girt.
"Our hobbies were each other and our family," she said. "He knew the most important thing about life was being with Caroline and I and our dog. He appreciated life. He knew what he had."
He had just taken two weeks off, the weeks before the attack. He spent the time with his wife and baby at home, hiking, going to the zoo, the botanical gardens, the aquarium. "We always just liked to be together," his wife said.
He was also a brilliant investor, well-read and intelligent, said a friend, Tom Frame of Greenwich, Conn. "He did very thorough research. He didn't just rely on Wall Street reports and things, he read five years of annual reports."
"I think what really impressed me more recently, since he got married, was just how delighted he was with his wife and child," Frame said. "I think he was absolutely in heaven playing with his new child."
Kristen Breitweiser agreed. "He was the best husband ever, the love of my life, the best dad ever."
Mr. Breitweiser also is survived by his parents, Frederick and Geraldine; his brothers, Rick and Christian; and a sister, Mary White.
Kristen Breitweiser is planning a memorial service in the spring. She requests that anyone who knew her husband to write a letter to Caroline, telling her about her dad. Letters can be mailed to P.O. Box 235, Rumson, N.J. 07760. 🕊️🗽 IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO NEVER MADE IT HOME — YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN. 🇺🇲

09/27/2025

September 27th
A Tribute to Sandra Brace Obituary, Gone But Never Forgotten
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25 Cats, 55 WordsSandra Conaty Brace might have appreciated a short biographical sketch about her. After all, she herself had mastered the 55-word short story — a challenge to the most diligent amateur writer. Mrs. Brace had published much of her work on Web sites dedicated to the genre.Mrs. Brace lived in Stapleton, Staten Island, and took the 7:40 a.m. ferry across the harbor each day to her job at Risk Insurance Solutions, where she was an administrative assistant. She shared her house with a husband, David, and 25 cats. Well, maybe not exactly 25. "It's probably more," Mr. Brace said, "But I lose count."Dinner for the cats always caused a minor food riot, but even a riot can have its own poetry. Mrs. Brace placed cat food on seven plates on the kitchen and dining room floors. The groups of cats arrayed around each plate formed a furry constellation of stars, with the plates at the centers and the cats as the coronas.On Sept. 10, Mrs. Brace, 60, took the day off from work to do chores, fix the carpeting on the stairs that had been torn by a cat, and watch "Judge Judy" on television. Mr. Brace came home at 5 p.m.He asked her: "Why don't you take another vacation day tomorrow?" She replied, "No, I think I'll go to work.""And that's what happened," Mr. Brace said. "That's what happened." 🕊️ 🗽9/11 WAS A TEST OF OUR NATION’S HEART — AND WE SHOWED THE WORLD OUR STRENGTH. 💪

09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to Sandy Waugh Bradshaw, Who Touched So Many Lives
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Today, on September 11, I want to take a moment to remember someone close to home - Sandy Waugh Bradshaw.
Sandy was a flight attendant on Flight 93, the plane where brave passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers. Their actions stopped the terrorists from reaching their intended target in Washington, D.C., and saved countless lives, even though it meant sacrificing their own.
In those final moments, she showed incredible courage, even pouring boiling coffee over the terrorists in an effort to fight back. That act of bravery has never left me.
She was from Randolph County, North Carolina, my home county too. She went to school with my dad. Every year on this day, I think of her.
Sandy is more than a hero of 9/11 - she’s our hometown hero. Her strength, courage, and sacrifice will never be forgotten.
And today, I also remember every single life lost, every family changed forever, and all the heroes - on the ground, in the air, and everywhere in between. We will never forget. 🇺🇸 SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 — A TRAGEDY THAT SHOOK US, YET UNITED US STRONGER THAN EVER. 🗽🕊️

09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to David B. Brady, Forever in Our Hearts
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A Soccer DadAt 41, David B. Brady had the trappings of success: an office on the 39th floor of the World Financial Center, where he was a first vice president at Merrill Lynch, and a home in Summit, N.J.He also had his priorities: faith, family and friends. A devout Catholic, he attended Mass almost every day and occasionally wrote prayers, said his wife of 12 years, Jennifer. But he never made a big deal of it."He would just say, 'I'm doing a cameo,' " said Joy Fingleton, an assistant.And he made sure that his four children — Matthew, 9; Erin, 6; Mark 4; and Grace, 2 — saw him every day. "If he had an evening meeting, he'd stay home for breakfast," Ms. Brady said. "Or sometimes he'd even come home for lunch."He was an eager school volunteer. "I think it was shocking to his clients, who would call to find out that he was gone for an hour but he would be back from reading in his daughter's class out in Summit, N.J.," Ms. Brady said.On Sept. 11, he went to 1 World Trade Center to meet with a client on the 106th floor. Now, every night his family prays for him with the words he taught them: "Thank you, Jesus, for the love you bring. Thank you, Jesus, for everything." 🕊️🗽 IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO NEVER MADE IT HOME — YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN. 🇺🇲

09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to Nicky Brandemarti, Gone But Never Forgotten
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Nicky Brandemarti was lost in the World Trade Center attack against our country on September 11, 2001. He had just begun his professional career at the investment banking firm, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
Nicky was a standout student-athlete at West Deptford High School and Fordham University. At West Deptford High School, his record breaking single game rushing total of 337 yards still stands. His single season rushing total of 1204 yards was a school record until our 2002 scholarship winner, Damon McWhite, recently broke it. While at Fordham, Nicky was presented the Bill Tierney Spirit Award for his dedication to the Ram's Football Program.
Nicky was known for his kindness to others and gregarious personality. With a glimpse of his smile and determined demeanor, one knew he was destined for greatness. Even more impressive was his love for his friends and family and his zest for life!
🙏 🗽REMEMBERING THE FALLEN, THE HEROES, AND THE UNBREAKABLE SPIRIT OF AMERICA. ❤️

09/27/2025

September 27th
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A Tribute to Dan Brandhorst, A Life of Purpose
World Trade Center
A family tragically lost, rememberedDan Brandhorst, Ron Gamboa and their adopted son David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst died aboard United Flight 175 when it crashed into the World Trade Center.By Malaika Costello-DoughertyThree-year-old David Brandhorst used to ask for a big hug and then would grab the other person and squeeze."The big hug became squeezing and shaking, it was the way he did everything, so hard that he started to shake," friend Ken Yood says.David Brandhorst and his fathers -- Dan Brandhorst and Ron Gamboa -- died aboard United flight 175, the second hijacked plane to crash into the World Trade Center, at 9:03 a.m. on Sept. 11.The family was returning to Los Angeles from Boston after spending a weekend at a friend's waterfront house in Ogunquit, Maine."It is so big that we cannot process it," friend Bernie Cummings says of the tragedy. "What we can process is this little boy."David was considered the "king of the slide" at West Hollywood Park -- "David's playground." The Legos that he loved to play with while his fathers brunched at Hugo's on Santa Monica Boulevard are similarly called "David's Legos." David would help feed the fish at Hugo's and many of the waiters came to the family's memorial last week.David was "a moose" who looked 4 when he was only 2, Yood says of the boy he remembers running around smiling and having a good time."Everybody knew David. He was very much the ring leader," Yood says."He just was the pied piper of children," Cummings says."They loved each other intensely but David was it," Cummings says. "They really got what it meant to be parents."The Brandhorst-Gamboa family were founding members of the Pop Luck Club, a community for existing families and a support group for gay men looking to adopt. Yood is now the president of the Pop Luck Club, which he says, has "proven itself to be such a comfort, such a support."When Yood and his partner adopted a child, Brandhorst and Gamboa arrived first at the hospital. Gamboa brought flowers for the birth mother. The couple then loaned David's bassinet to the new parents."They presented a model of how to be a family for us," Yood says. "Dan and Ron made that dream attainable for us.... When I walk down the street and I see other families like ours, I see Dan and Ron's legacy."The Brandhorst-Gamboa family lived in the Hollywood Hills and was famous for their parties, making people feel at home and spontaneous picnics. Brandhorst, a lawyer, made junior partner at PriceWaterhouse accounting firm. Gamboa worked at The Gap for 10 years and became the regional manager. The couple loved to shop.Yood describes Brandhorst and Gamboa as the "perfect foil...where Dan was uptight and driven, Ron was laidback and relaxed.""They were a constant in our lives and the lives of I can't tell you how many," Yood says. "Every Sunday at St. Victor's Mass. Every Saturday and possibly Sunday they went to Hugo's for brunch. Every Saturday Dan would take David to swim classes at the Y. Every Friday night was date night for them.""They had hit a place in their lives that most of us aspire to," Cummings says. "A wonderful group of friends, successful jobs, parents. They loved life, loved their jobs, loved each other but most of all they loved David."A memorial service was held at St. Victor's last Tuesday. More than 500 people were at the service which Yood says hoped "to do some of the work that Dan had left undone...to tell what it meant to be a gay family in West Hollywood and participate in that kind of way, what kind of legacy they leave."About 150 people went to Cummings' house afterwards, and he says he opened his house because it is what Brandhorst and Gamboa would have done.A memorial service was held in Brandhorst's hometown of Syracuse, N.Y., and another at Gamboa's old high school in Kentucky. A tree planting and memorial is planned for next week in Ogunquit, Maine."It is truly amazing how many people can be touched by the lives of so few," Yood says. 🕊️ 🗽SEPTEMBER 11 ISN’T JUST A DATE — IT’S A PROMISE TO NEVER FORGET. 📆

09/21/2025

A Tribute to David M. Berray, In Eternal Remembrance
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David M. Berray had a "to do" list that was extraordinary, his wife, Alison Berray, said."He'd write down everything from taking out the trash to fly fishing on the Housatonic River in Connecticut to climbing Mt. Fuji. He'd get up very early in the morning and start the list."Mr. Berray managed to accomplish just about all of the things he planned. The Berrays spent five years in Hong Kong and they rarely passed an idle moment.They boated down the Mekong River, fished in Canton and hiked in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. Once they went to New Zealand, where the summer days stretch dangerously long."Giving David 16 hours a day of sunlight was exhausting," Mrs. Berray said."It would be ten o'clock at night, the sun would still be up and David would ask, 'What do you want to do next?' "Despite his abundant energy, Mr. Berray, 39, managed to take time off to stay home when each of his two children were born.He had earned a master's degree from M.I.T. in technology management in 2000 and after a dozen years in banking, became chief operations officer for MoneyLine, an Internet based financial services company. 🙏 🗽REMEMBERING THE FALLEN, THE HEROES, AND THE UNBREAKABLE SPIRIT OF AMERICA. ❤️

09/21/2025

A Tribute to David W. Bernard, In Eternal Remembrance
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David W. Bernard loved his family and he loved golf, and he liked to combine his two passions. Every July, he played in a father-son tournament — twice in one day — so he could do 18 holes with each of his sons, Mark and David Jr. Before his daughter, Jill, was married last summer, he arranged a foursome with his two boys and his soon-to-be son-in- law. And he taught his wife of 33 years, Nancy, how to play.
"He was very patient with me," she said. "He wanted me to play golf so that when we traveled together we could do it together." (In return, he went shopping with her.) Despite his low golf handicap (just nine) and his fierce competitiveness, Mr. Bernard was a gracious winner, said Mrs. Bernard: "Nobody could ever be mad at him. He just had a very easy way about him."
Mr. Bernard, 57, was an industry specialist for the Internal Revenue Service and was based in Boston. On Sept. 11, he was on his way to a meeting at the I.R.S. offices at 7 World Trade Center when the first plane hit the towers. He was struck by falling debris and died of his injuries on Dec. 11.
Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on December 31, 2001.
David W. Bernard, age 57, of Chelmsford, a victim of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack, died Tuesday, Dec. 11th. Employee of the Treasury Dept. of the U.S. Government. Husband of Nancy M. (Berg) Bernard. Father of David W. Bernard Jr. of Boston, Mark A. Bernard and his wife Johanna of Brookline, and Jill E. Ludmar and her husband Daniel S. of Brighton. Brother of Fran Kline and her husband Judd of Lexington, and John Bernard and his wife Donna of Pepperell. A Funeral Service will be offered on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Mary's Church, Chelmsford. Visiting hours at Blake Funeral Home, 24 Worthen St., CHELMSFORD, on Friday from 3 to 8 p.m. Burial in Heart Pond Cemetery, Chelmsford. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the CR Paralysis Foundation, 500 Morris Ave.🙏🗽 TO THE MOTHERS, FATHERS, SIBLINGS, AND FRIENDS WHO LOST LOVED ONES — WE STAND WITH YOU. 🤍

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