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Army Sgt. 1st Class Lola Renee Bolden, 40, of Birmingham, Ala., had been stationed in the Oklahoma City Recruiting Battalion for four months. Bolden is survived by a 21-year-old daughter and two sons, Ricky Hill, 13, and Jonathan, 11.
The 15-year Army veteran worked in the fourth-floor recruiting station in the federal building.
The single mother had transferred from Colorado to Oklahoma in January.
Her son Ricky described his mother as kind and funny, and said she would have pillow fights and "stuff" with her kids.
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Karen Gist Carr was a "people" person who embraced life.
"She just made living a 24-hour vocation," said the Rev. Leslie Brown, pastor of First Christian Church in Midwest City, where Carr attended.
Carr, 32, was an advertising assistant for the Army recruiting office.
In addition to her full-time job, she was an aerobics instructor at the Downtown YMCA and at Rose State College.
She also was a member of the Mid-Del Toastmasters Club.
Carr and her husband, Gregory Carr, had just celebrated their eighth anniversary eight days before she was killed in the explosion.
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A Kentucky native Peggy Louise Holland, 37, became a welcome additon to the Oklahoma City area in 1987, when she assumed responsibilities in public information and command information programs for the Army.
Most recently a computer specialist for the Army Recruiting Battalion in Oklahoma City, Holland gave much of her time to children at Knob Hill Baptist Church as a Sunday school teacher, children's choir teacher and vacation Bible school teacher.
She was also secretary of the Coolidge Eyes and Ears Neighborhood Watch Association. She and her husband Richard have two children, Erica and Kylie.
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"He was very good at his job; he had found his niche. And he was very happy in Oklahoma City," the sister of John C. Moss III said.
Moss, 50, was a civilian employee in the Army recruiting office where he served as chief of public affairs.
"He was a funny, witty, popular man who had a lot of friends," his sister, Marjorie Moss Hendrix, said.
Moss played football at Warren High School, where he graduated in 1961. While serving in Vietnam as a Marine, he was burned when a fuel tank exploded.
"He survived that and a lot of other close calls," Hendrix said.
He had been a civilian employee for the Army the past 16 years after a brief stint as a high school English teacher.
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She had an "illustrious career," giving 16 years to the service of her country, and was remembered with outstanding compliments.
"Placing all others' needs above her own, she unselfishly gave her care and concern to all whose lives she touched," read the obituary for Master Sgt. Victoria Lee Sohn, 36, of Moore.
"Vickey was a perfectionist, striving for and achieving a level of accomplishment surpassed by none."
Sohn is survived by her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Gregory P. Sohn.
She also is survived by her five children, Gregory Jr., Jessica, Stephen, Victoria Marie and John Michael.
"Vickey, above all else was a beloved wife, and a devoted mother of five children."
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Dolores M. Stratton, 51, of Moore was a good friend, mother and grandmother.
She was a military personnel clerk for the Army recruiting office.
Her husband is retired Air Force Master Sgt. Charles "Chuck" H. Stratton. They have a daughter, Michelle Sawyer; a son, Jay Sawyer; and two stepdaughters, Kim Fairclough and Kelly Stratton.
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Kayla Titsworth, 3, was at the Murrah Building with her family in the Army's Recruiting office when the bomb exploded.
Sgt. William Titsworth was at the U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion to report for his new assignment in Oklahoma City after transferring from Fort Riley, Kan., said Col. John Meyers, director of public affairs for the Army Recruiting Command in Fort Knox, Ky.
Titsworth, his wife - Gloria Titsworth, who is Kayla's mother - and Kayla were in the office's processing unit, probably filling out paperwork, at the time of the bombing, Meyers said.
William and Gloria Titsworth survived the blast.
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Wanda Watkins, 49, of Oklahoma City could crochet circles around most people.
She was a civilian who worked for the Army as a clerk in the recruiting office.
Watkins loved to dance, was an Elvis fan and collected records and liquor bottles, although she didn't drink.
She also will be remembered for her good sense of humor and the colorful flowers in her garden.
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U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion
To procure applicants for the enlistment in the regular or reserve establishment and to serve the United States Army's larger mission: "To find peaceful solutions to the frictions between nation state, address problems of human suffering, and, when required, fight and win our Nation's wars."
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