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Teresa Alexander, 33. A wife and mother of three, Teresa Alexander was always on the go.
Alexander, of Oklahoma City, had gone alone to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to get a Social Security card for her 8-month-old son Sean.
She worked two full-time jobs: as a nurse's assistant at Baptist Medical Center and as a pool supervisor at the Marriott Hotel.
Still, she found time to be a Girl Scout leader and attend regular functions at St. Eugene Catholic Church with her husband, Martin, and their children, Michael, 15, Latress, 13, and Sean.
Alexander's sister, Marian Spears, said she also was involved in St. Eugene's Catholic School.
Dentist Stephen Chastain attended church with Alexander and knew the family well. He helped start the Teresa Alexander Family Assistance Fund.
"Teresa was quiet, very humble, never said a bad word about anybody," Chastain said.
Donations to the family assistance fund set up in her name can be sent to: Teresa Alexander Family Assistance Fund, c/o First Fidelity Bank, Box 82189, Oklahoma City, OK 73148-0189.
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In college, Richard Allen played center and served as co-captain for the Panhandle State University football team. He attended school on a full athletic scholarship.
Allen, 46, of Yukon worked as a claims representative for the Social Security Administration.
Before going to work for Social Security in 1973, Allen was stationed with the 65th Military Police Platoon at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.
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In Pamela Cleveland Argo, 36, of Oklahoma City, loved life.
Argo, a data entry specialist at Presbyterian Hospital, was the second person positively identified as a fatality in the April 19 explosion.
Friends say Argo began her day like she did most days, "full of life" and with everything planned. She had a 9 a.m. appointment at the Social Security Administration in the Murrah Building.
She loved black clothes and bright red lipstick, stylish hats and big jewelry. Her favorite biblical passage was the Beatitudes.
She also delivered homebound meals and assisted AIDS foundations and Feed the Children.
She and her sister, Christi Young, had just planted 75 gladiola bulbs in her yard.
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Saundra "Sandy" Avery loved to work with the children at her church.
She attended Life Christian Center, where she played in the orchestra and bell choir.
Avery, 34, of Midwest City, was a development clerk at the Social Security Administration.
She also was taking sign-language classes at night school.
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Calvin Battle, 62, was a quiet man, but not when it came to sports, said his daughter,Janet Battle. "He liked the pro teams and he was a die-hard OU fan," she said.
On April 19, Battle and his wife, Peola, went to the Social Security office in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to apply for disability assistance because he had recently suffered a stroke. Peola Battle also died in the explosion.
Calvin Battle had worked as a machinist for Corken International, his daughter said.
She said her father did not judge people, but was very accepting of everyone he met.
"And he loved the Lord," she said. Battle attended the Church of the Living God Temple 234.
He and his wife had been married 39 years. He had four daughters and a son.
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A person "who never met a stranger," Peola Battle, 51, of Oklahoma City, made friends wherever she went, said her daughter, Janet Battle.
Janet Battle said her mother and father, Calvin Battle, had gone to the Murrah building to apply for disability assistance for Calvin, who recently had suffered a stroke.
Since her husband could not drive, Peola drove him to his appointment.
Calvin Battle also was killed in the bombing.
Janet Battle described her mother as a "Christian lady" who attended Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church.
Janet Battle said her mother and father raised four daughters, including herself.
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Oleta Christine Biddy always had a smile on her face, said her sister-in-law, Doris Jennings. People seemed to love being around her, as shown by the 1,000 who attended her funeral Monday at the First Baptist Church of Tuttle.
"She was just a fabulous person," Jennings said. "I said when she married my brother that I could have been jealous because my parents thought she was so wonderful, but she was. "
Biddy, 54, also enjoyed working in the church nursery. She was a service representative for the Social Security Administration.
Her survivors include her husband, Henry, two sisters and a son and daughter-in-law.
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Cassandra Kay Booker "was a sweet, caring person," said her mother, Gloria Graves. "She would reach out to everybody and always be there for you when you needed her. "
Platt College has established an annual scholarship in her name and many have donated money toward a trust fund for her four children.
Booker, 25, was applying for Social Security cards for two of her children at the time of the bombing.
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Carol Louise Bowers, 53, was an operations supervisor for the Social Security Administration.
She was born in Chandler, OK on Oct. 4, 1941. In September 1963, she married Jerry Bowers, who operates B&B Plumbing in Yukon.
Relatives said Carol Bowers was the kind of person who bubbled and spread joy wherever she went.
She was a longtime worker at Social Security who did all she could to help her clients and loved working there, they said. She always answered the phone with a happy voice.
A minister said her husband, Jerry, told him they "got married (in 1963) and grew up together." They also were active in the Corvette Association.
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She was only 3 years old, but she acted like she was 23, her aunt Donnia Banks said.
Peachlyn Bradley "touched everyone she met," Banks said.
Bradley's great-grandmother, Mary Hill, said the girl "was the laugh of everything."
Peachlyn died in the bombing along with her grandmother, Cheryl Bradley Hammons, and her 3-month-old brother, Gabreon Bruce. The family, including Peachlyn's mother, Dana Bradley, 20, had gone to get a Social Security card for Gabreon. Dana is now recovering after her leg was amputated. Dana's sister, Felicia Bradley, 23, was with them, too, and also is recovering from injuries.
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Three-month-old Gabreon DeShawn Lee Bruce was a "lovable" baby, said his great-grandmother, Mary Hill.
The family enjoyed holding him, and Hill said she had held the baby exactly one week before the April 19 bombing.
Gabreon's mother, Dana Bradley, 20, had taken her son to the Social Security office to obtain a card for him. Gabreon's grandmother, Cheryl Bradley Hammons, was killed in the blast, and Dana and Gabreon's aunt Felicia, 23, were injured.
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Katherine Louise (Kathy) Cregan, 60, was a widow devoted to her three sons, William, Regis and Christopher, her two grandsons, Sean and Jonathan, and her three granddaughters, Rachel, Carrie and Michelle.
She was fond of telling friends how much she loved to spoil them.
Her two dogs, Yorkshire terriers Max and Jason, also received a great deal of her attention.
Cregan, 60, was born Nov. 15, 1934, in West Memphis, Ark. She was a longtime resident of Oklahoma City and a graduate of Classen High School. She worked as a claims representative for the Social Security Administration for 13 years.
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Ashley Megan Eckles, 4, had gone with her grandparents, Luther and LaRue Treanor, to the Social Security office on the ground floor of the Murrah building.
Her grandfather was to retire in May and he had a 9:15 a.m. appointment at the Social Security office. They arrived a little early and were in the building when the bomb exploded at 9:02 a.m.
Ashley's aunt, Lois Treanor, said, "Ashley was a happy child who knew no strangers.
She had a big heart."
Ashley is survived by her mother, Kathleen Eckles Treanor; her stepfather, Mike Treanor; and two brothers David, 9, and Zachary, 7.
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Donald Lee Fritzler, 64, and his wife, Mary Anne Fritzler, 57, of Oklahoma City had celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary the day before the federal building explosion.
The Fritzlers were married April 18, 1959.
Don was especially known for his work designing churches. He attended high school in Hooker and graduated from the University of Oklahoma, where he received a bachelor's degree in architecture.
He served as a principal in architectural firms, including Fritzler and Associates, which he had headed since 1980.
Mary Anne had taught high school in the Oklahoma City and Midwest City-Del City school districts for 14 years. She attended Southeast High School in Oklahoma City and OU, where she received a bachelor's degree in business education.
In 1982, Mary Anne joined her husband at Fritzler and Associates, where the two worked side by side.
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Donald Lee Fritzler, 64, and his wife, Mary Anne Fritzler, 57, of Oklahoma City had celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary the day before the federal building explosion.
The Fritzlers were married April 18, 1959.
Don was especially known for his work designing churches. He attended high school in Hooker and graduated from the University of Oklahoma, where he received a bachelor's degree in architecture.
He served as a principal in architectural firms, including Fritzler and Associates, which he had headed since 1980.
Mary Anne had taught high school in the Oklahoma City and Midwest City-Del City school districts for 14 years. She attended Southeast High School in Oklahoma City and OU, where she received a bachelor's degree in business education.
In 1982, Mary Anne joined her husband at Fritzler and Associates, where the two worked side by side.
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Laura Garrison, 61, had worked hard for her family all her life, but preparing retirement papers at the Social Security office brought her to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. She had helped lay to rest one sister a month earlier.
She had a special bond with one of her brothers, William, who suffered a neck injury as a young man during a football game.
"Laura would come down to the hospital at least three days a week to take care of him," said Samuel L. Washington, another brother. "She was a quiet sister, devoted to her job and her family."
Garrison was a Luther High School graduate. She lived in California for a while, but did not want to raise her three children on the coast and returned to Oklahoma.
An admissions clerk at Oklahoma Memorial Hospital, Garrison planned to retire in July.
She and her husband, Fred, have two daughters, Tracy Rushing, 39, and Kerry Hatcher, 35; as well as one son, Harold Taylor, 34.
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Whether cruising the countryside as a member of the Happy Bottoms Motorcycle Club or planting trees or watching birds - especially blue jays - Margaret Betterton Goodson thrived outdoors.
Goodson, 54, lived in Oklahoma City and was a claims representative with the Social Security Administration, working with the disabledbecause she "wanted to help people."
She had spent nearly 20 years with the federal government.
Goodson's passions included her motorcycle club's travels, with her favorite trip a ride to Mena, Ark. "She always talked about how beautiful it was there," said Debbie Gomez, her daughter and one of two children, along with son Keith Betterton.
She was married to Ron Goodson.
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"She was very outgoing, and she had the tenacity of a bulldog."
That is the description of Ethel Griffin, 55, as given by her son, Bob Griffin, a minister from Independence, Mo.
"She knew right from wrong, and she was raised in an era where people knew the difference between right and wrong," he said.
Ethel Griffin was a claims representative for the Social Security Administration.
"She was about 25 feet inside the glassed area where the bomb blast occurred," Bob Griffin said.
An Edmond resident since 1976, Ethel Griffin and her husband, Bruce, a design engineer in Guthrie, were married 26 years. Their other son, Richard Griffin, lives in Shawnee, Kan.
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Cheryl Bradley Hammons spent her life taking care of people, said her mother, Mary Hill of Oklahoma City.
"That is what she loved to do," Hill said. She also loved dancing and knitting.
Hammons, 44, worked as a nurse at Four Seasons Nursing Home, where she had many friends. She also had been a nurse at Presbyterian Hospital and Oklahoma Medical Center. She was a pleasant person who smiled and joked a lot but could also be serious, said her sister, Donnia Banks.
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The last time Clarice Harding saw her son, Ronald Harding, alive was Easter Sunday, a day she now cherishes.
"While visiting my sister at a nursing home I dozed off to sleep," she said. "When I woke up, Ron was standing over me smiling."
She said her son ate dinner with her and a granddaughter after leaving the nursing home.
Harding, 55, was a claims representative for the Social Security Administration. He also was an accomplished musician who played five instruments - clarinet, saxophone, flute, violin, and cello.
He had been a member of the Earl Pittman All-Stars jazz band for more than 10 years. She said he also was active in his church, Greater Cleaves Memorial Church in Oklahoma City, where he had been recently selected as a steward.
Ronald Harding, the oldest of Clarice Harding's children, had two brothers and a sister.
Harding is survived by his wife and four children - two girls and two boys.
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Thomas Lynn Hawthorne Sr., 52, died as he lived - helping others.
A son said the Choctaw resident was at the Social Security office in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building when the bomb exploded on the morning of April 19.
Hawthorne Sr. was trying to help a retired United Rubber Workers union member who had moved to Oklahoma clear up a problem with the retiree's federal benefits, family said.
"In a way, that made it easier," Thomas Hawthorne Jr. said, "because if he had to die now, at least he died as he lived. "
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Dr. Charles Erwin Hurlburt, 73, was raised in Africa where his parents were missionaries. His wife, Anna Jean, 67, grew up in Texas.
At the time of their deaths, he was a retired professor of dental radiology at the University of Oklahoma, and she had worked as a licensed practical nurse at Deaconess Hospital for 22 years.
The couple met and married as they were attending Wheaton College in Illinois, son-in-law Michael Palmer said.
The Hurlburts went to Africa as medical missionaries for five years before settling in Oklahoma.
They were longtime members of the Metropolitan Baptist Church.
"They were genuinely uncommon people. Some of the things they had going for them was a zest for their relationship with the Lord, music, and they laughed a lot. Those are some of the gifts they left us," Palmer said.
The two apparently had gone to the Social Security Administration office to follow-up on paperwork, Palmer said.
Their trip was not discovered until the day after the explosion when a daughter, also a nurse at Deaconess, found Social Security documents near a phone at the couple's Oklahoma City home.
The Hurlburts had four daughters and sons-in-law, Barbie and Ronnie Trent, Oklahoma City; Sherry and Kent Elliott, Temple, Texas; Dawn and Jonathon Barber, Birmingham, Ala.; and Betty and Michael Palmer, Birmingham, Ala. They also had nine grandchildren.
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Dr. Charles Erwin Hurlburt, 73, was raised in Africa where his parents were missionaries. His wife, Anna Jean, 67, grew up in Texas.
At the time of their deaths, he was a retired professor of dental radiology at the University of Oklahoma, and she had worked as a licensed practical nurse at Deaconess Hospital for 22 years.
The couple met and married as they were attending Wheaton College in Illinois, son-in-law Michael Palmer said.
The Hurlburts went to Africa as medical missionaries for five years before settling in Oklahoma.
They were longtime members of the Metropolitan Baptist Church.
"They were genuinely uncommon people. Some of the things they had going for them was a zest for their relationship with the Lord, music, and they laughed a lot. Those are some of the gifts they left us," Palmer said.
The two apparently had gone to the Social Security Administration office to follow-up on paperwork, Palmer said.
Their trip was not discovered until the day after the explosion when a daughter, also a nurse at Deaconess, found Social Security documents near a phone at the couple's Oklahoma City home.
The Hurlburts had four daughters and sons-in-law, Barbie and Ronnie Trent, Oklahoma City; Sherry and Kent Elliott, Temple, Texas; Dawn and Jonathon Barber, Birmingham, Ala.; and Betty and Michael Palmer, Birmingham, Ala. They also had nine grandchildren.
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A member of the Seminole Nation, Raymond Lee Johnson, 59, was active in several American Indian organizations.
He was working as a volunteer in the Social Security office with the Older Native American Program. He was a former council member and a past member of the Oklahoma Indian Education Association and held memberships in the National Indian Education Association and the National Congress of American Indians.
Johnson was born in Lawton and raised in Wewoka before graduating from Seminole Junior College and East Central University in Ada. His children live in Shawnee, New Lima, Yukon, Durant, Wewoka, Oklahoma City and Choctaw.
He served in both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army and was a member of the 45th Infantry Division of the National Guard.
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Lakesha R. Levy was intelligent and a budding comedian.
Karen Johnson of New Orleans said her niece was focusing on her medical-related job aspirations, but she had a wonderful sense of humor and could easily have excelled as a comic.
In one of their last telephone conversations, Johnson said Levy mentioned she had dreamed she was a stand-up comedian.
Johnson said her niece's dream came as no surprise since she always kept the family laughing.
Levy always had a joke to tell and brought smiles to everyone's faces, Johnson said.
Levy, 21, of Midwest City, was an Airman 1st Class training to be a lab technician at Tinker Air Force Base.
She had gone to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to obtain a Social Security card, relatives said.
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"Their love was just unbelievable. "
An imprint on the memory of a family friend and Guthrie neighbor Vern Epperson, that is how Aurelia Donna Luster, 43, and Robert L. Luster Jr., 45, will be remembered by at least one man.
For many, Donna, as known by her friends, and Robert will be known as the financially troubled couple who lost their lives in the bomb blast while trying desperately to provide for six children.
The children, ranging in age from 7 to 22, were initially left homeless, victims of a landlord's eviction order which spurred Robert and Donna Luster to make a trip downtown, where they planned to apply for further Social Security disability funding.
Now the children are left without parents.
Since the tragedy, intense community support has provided the surviving family members with a 1 new home in which to carry out the teachings of their parents - valuable teachings according to Epperson.
"They were a real loving family," Epperson said. "I don't think you'd find a more loving couple toward each other and their family.
It was truly special. From the smallest children on up, it was just incredible love. "
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"Their love was just unbelievable. "
An imprint on the memory of a family friend and Guthrie neighbor Vern Epperson, that is how Aurelia Donna Luster, 43, and Robert L. Luster Jr., 45, will be remembered by at least one man.
For many, Donna, as known by her friends, and Robert will be known as the financially troubled couple who lost their lives in the bomb blast while trying desperately to provide for six children.
The children, ranging in age from 7 to 22, were initially left homeless, victims of a landlord's eviction order which spurred Robert and Donna Luster to make a trip downtown, where they planned to apply for further Social Security disability funding.
Now the children are left without parents.
Since the tragedy, intense community support has provided the surviving family members with a 1 new home in which to carry out the teachings of their parents - valuable teachings according to Epperson.
"They were a real loving family," Epperson said. "I don't think you'd find a more loving couple toward each other and their family.
It was truly special. From the smallest children on up, it was just incredible love. "
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The Rev. Gilberto Martinez, 35, always said he wanted to see his church filled. And he got his wish, but not in any way he had ever envisioned.
Instead, his congregation, family and friends filed by to pay their respects Tuesday at El Tabernacle De Fe Church in Oklahoma City before his funeral service, which is today at Faith Tabernacle.
Born in Brownsville, Texas, Martinez was a minister and member of the Oklahoma District Assemblies of God and was a teacher in the Oklahoma City public school system.
He and his wife, Martha, have two sons and three daughters.
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Airman 1st Class Cartney Jean McRaven, 19, had returned from a four-month deployment in Haiti two weeks before the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Four days before the bombing, on April 15, she married Senior Airman Anthony Shane McRaven. The couple were planning a large formal wedding in December.
On the morning of April 19, McRaven was in the Social Security office at the Murrah building, reporting her name change.
McRaven was a native of Watertown, S.D. She was a member of the 3rd Combat Communications Group, 32nd Combat Communications Squadron. She and her husband were both stationed at Tinker Air Force Base.
The couple spent much of their spare time helping in a local Salvation Army soup kitchen.
"We stand back in tears and disbelief and ask, `Why? ' " said a press release issued by her unit.
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Derwin Miller, 27, moved to Oklahoma City soon after graduating cum laude in 1980 from the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff with a psychology degree.
He was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity in college.
Miller was a claims examiner in the Social Security Administration. He was buried in Lone Oak, Ark., Tuesday, five days after what would have been his 28th birthday.
A family friend said Miller and his family are well-known and respected members of the small community.
Miller is survived by a daughter, his parents, two brothers and a sister.
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Joe Mitchell of Oklahoma City had just a few incidental questions for his wife, Eula Leigh Mitchell, to complete his application for Social Security retirement benefits. But he never made it to the reception area of the Social Security offices in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to ask her. The explosion separated them.
Leigh Mitchell, 64, an employee of Manhattan Cleaners and a Sunday school teacher in her church, loved animals and especially the birds around her home. Her family described her as a friend to many, particularly the elderly friends that she loved to take care of and shop for.
Her husband of 26 years was injured in the blast.
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Emilio Rangel Tapia, 50, of Oklahoma City was a customer at the Social Security office.
Tapia attended the Tabernacle of Faith Church at SE 29 and Pennsylvania.
A friend said Tapia's son, Manuel, had come to Oklahoma City from Mexico for his funeral service and to take his body home for burial.
A funeral home spokeswoman said Tapia was buried in San Felipe Cemetery in San Felipe, Guanajuato, Mexico.
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Charlotte Andrea Lewis Thomas, 43, had worked for the federal government for 17 years.
For the past three years, Thomas produced the Black Awareness program for the Social Security office.
Thomas graduated from Douglass High School and received her bachelor of arts degree from Oklahoma State University.
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Michael George Thompson, 47, was a quiet man deeply devoted to his family.
He was an accomplished painter and musician who loved animals and enjoyed building things, such as a storage barn in the back yard of his Yukon home. He also liked to tinker with the Volkswagen he rebuilt by hand.
Thompson, a Vietnam veteran, was an employee of the Social Security Administration.
He had been honored by the Social Security Administration headquarters in Baltimore for his help in improving the agency's service delivery to clients in need.
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LaRue and Luther Treanor of Guthrie were married June 28, 1959.
LaRue, 56, loved to sing in the Seward Road Baptist Church choir, and Luther Treanor, 61, had a habit of tapping on pastor Rex Haymaker's office window each Sunday on his way from the parking lot to the church.
The Treanors and their granddaughter Ashley Eckles, 4, went to the federal building for Luther's appointment to check on his Social Security retirement.
The Treanors have four children, Mike, Mark and Brad Treanor, and Debbie Price.
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LaRue and Luther Treanor of Guthrie were married June 28, 1959.
LaRue, 56, loved to sing in the Seward Road Baptist Church choir, and Luther Treanor, 61, had a habit of tapping on pastor Rex Haymaker's office window each Sunday on his way from the parking lot to the church.
The Treanors and their granddaughter Ashley Eckles, 4, went to the federal building for Luther's appointment to check on his Social Security retirement.
The Treanors have four children, Mike, Mark and Brad Treanor, and Debbie Price.
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Neither a heart attack suffered last year nor the loss of his father could slow Robert Walker Jr.
"He never slowed down," said his wife, Judith Walker. "He was just so active, and he was really a wonderful man.
"I just wish everybody had had the chance to meet him." Walker, 52, was a claims representative with the Social Security Administration, and his caring nature made a lasting impression on those he served, she said.
The Walkers had been married for almost nine years, and both worked for the Social Security Administration. They were transferred to Oklahoma City from Albuquerque, N.M., three years ago.
It was a good fit, Judith Walker said. "We were in love with Oklahoma City. " Walker continued his long association with the Boy Scouts in Oklahoma City. An Eagle Scout and 46-year member of the organization, Walker served as Assistant District Commissioner of the Will Rogers District and Unit Commissioner for Troop 84. Walker also pursued an avid interest in computers.
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Julie Marie Welch, 23, of Oklahoma City had been working as a Spanish interpreter for the Social Security Administration.
Her goal was to be a Spanish teacher to help improve global understanding.
Welch graduated with a degree in Spanish from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., where she was on the dean's honor list.
She spent a year as a foreign exchange student in Pontevedra, Spain, during high school, and studied for one year at the Marquette en Madrid during college.
Born Sept. 12, 1971, in Oklahoma City, she attended Windsor Hills Elementary and Wiley Post Elementary, Hefner Junior High and graduated from Bishop McGuinness High School.
Welch was planning to marry an Air Force lieutenant.
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William Stephen Williams' best friend, Warren Vieth, a news editor for the Los Angeles Times' Washington Bureau, wrote that he remembered the two forming a garage band during their teen-age years.
The two became friends in second grade while growing up in Kingfisher.
Vieth said he last heard from Williams on April 7 through an E-mail computer message asking for help with a song he was writing.
Williams was struggling with the verses but he liked a chorus he had written: "Grab the world and shake it now, or maybe you never will. "
Vieth said, "Looks like the world reached up and grabbed Steve before he could finish his song. " Williams, 42, of Cashion, was an operations supervisor for the Social Security Administration.
His wife's name is Barbara and he had three daughters.
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Sharon Louise Wood-Chesnut was one of those people friends knew they could turn to during times of difficulty.
An Oklahoma City native, the 47-year-old Wood-Chesnut grew up in the Del City area and obtained a business degree before moving to Louisiana.
She later returned to her hometown to work in the Social Security office, where she was known as a friendly, cheerful person who worked well with people.
She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church, where she served in several capacities, particularly those which required a good worker, planner or director.
Wood-Chesnut had a daughter, Nikki Chesnut, and two stepchildren, Lonny Chesnut of Lafayette, La., and Laurie O'Field of Houston, Texas.
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