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The 40-year-old employee of aerospace firm Hamilton Standard was returning to Southern California from a meeting in Windsor Locks, Conn., with colleagues R. The 44-year-old International House of Pancakes franchisee was the 229th victim to be identified by medical investigators. She was returning from a training session at Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago with a co-employee Peter Moon who we also miss dearly.” Ruth Baldini (Lawndale, Calif.) George Barich (Los Angeles) I can only say that it has been over 40 years since we lost her on Flight 191 but she will always be remembered in our hearts. “Sherry was not only a great employee at Abbott Diagnostic Division Reagent Product Line in South Pasadena, Calif., but a positive and wonderful lady. (Photo submitted by her former boss, Richard Ring) Atkinson died on American Airlines Flight 191, which crashed just after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. Sherry Atkinson attends a company picnic for Abbott Diagnostics in the summer of 1978. Though he only lived in Illinois a short time, the Illinois Parks & Recreation Association’s lifetime achievement award is named in Artz’s honor. His wife still lived in Southern California and he was traveling back there for a surprise visit. (Photo submitted by the Illinois Association of Park Districts)Īrtz, who moved to Illinois in January 1979, was the executive director of the Illinois Association of Park Districts in Springfield.

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The Robert Artz Lifetime Achievement Award, presented each year at the organization's annual conference, is given to a professional in the field of parks and recreation who has had a lasting impact and has created awareness of the importance of parks and recreation among his/her peers and in the communities they serve. He died on American Airlines Flight 191, which crashed just after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. Robert 'Bob' Artz, executive director of the Illinois Association of Park Districts in Springfield, is shown in a photo circa 1979. These victims’ names became known by a process of elimination and were buried side by side at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She was among the 30 victims whose remains were never identified. Armstrong (Hawthorne, Calif.)Īfter visiting friends and family in Michigan City, Ind., Armstrong took a limousine to O’Hare International Airport. Colleen Anderson Gary AngĪng was a senior auditor for the Times Mirror Co., then-publisher of the Los Angeles Times, who had just joined the company two weeks prior to the crash. The 30-year-old service coordinator was one of seven employees of Pacific Telephone who had been attending classes in Lisle. Parents Abdullah and Mona along with their children Basil, 8, and Ahamad, 3, all died aboard Flight 191. The Al-Swailem family (Virginia Beach, Va.) Aeschbacher was a passenger aboard Flight 191, traveling to Los Angeles to visit friends over Memorial Day weekend. He received his flight training in the U.S. The 30-year-old Wisconsin native had been a flight officer for American Airlines, based in Boston, for more than a year. Now, that’s devastation, isn’t it?” Robert Ernest Aeschbacher (Hampton Beach, N.H.) What I didn’t realize until the (memorial’s) dedication was there were families there who lost up to five family members at once. My father was heartbroken over losing two loved ones and committed suicide in 1997. My mom was in remission from breast cancer and three months after the accident her cancer came back and she passed away in 1981.

The devastation of the accident affected my family way beyond 1979. I remember she had just bought a new Pontiac Firebird and I went with her to sign the papers and bring it home. She was studying to be a nurse at South Suburban College at the time of the accident and needed a break from school and the heartbreak of the wedding being called off. She was a sweet and beautiful sister who had many friends. We ended up in church on the 2nd of June for Kathy - for her funeral. They were Gail DeCastro and Rhonda DeYoung, who also perished. To take her mind off the wedding, my mom talked her into going to Hawaii with two other friends. “Kathy was supposed to get married and the date was set for June 2 of that year, but it was called off. (Photo submitted by her brother, Michael Adduci) (HANDOUT) She died on American Airlines Flight 191, which crashed just after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. Kathleen Adduci, shown here standing up in a friend's wedding, circa 1979.

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