9/11 Widow Dies In Plane Crash

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Beverly Eckert who strangely enough was widowed when her husband died in one of the 9/11 buildings at New York City, has herself died in a blazing plane crash. The crash happened Thursday at about 10:30 PM in northern New York State. Eckert was traveling to Buffalo to celebrate what would have been her late husband Sean Rooney's 58th birthday. "The fact that it was a plane crash, it was fire, it was reminiscent of 9/11 that way, that's just very difficult," said Carol Ashley, a retired schoolteacher from Long Island whose daughter died at the World Trade Center. Obama, speaking in the White House's East Room Friday, said Eckert "was an inspiration to me and to so many others, and I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard days ahead." Beverly Eckert was 57.
Just a week before her death, Eckert met with Obama at the White House as part of a group of 9/11 families and relatives of those killed in the bombing of the USS Cole. See the house that was destroyed by Eckert plane crash. Click Here
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