Remembering 9/11 Victims From Pennsylvania 20 Years Later (2024)

Pennsylvania residents who died on 9/11 will be among those memorialized at services across the country on the attack's 20th anniversary.

Posted Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:32 am ET

Americans felt a collective trauma as first one and then another plane flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. As the truth dawned on people watching from their TVs that America was under attack, another plane took aim at the Pentagon. A fourth was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania in a final act of heroism by passengers who realized their flight had been hijacked.

Nearly 3,000 Americans, including 30 from Pennsylvania, were killed in the suicide attacks carried out by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaida.

On the 20th anniversary of the attacks, our state remembers and mourns:

• Michael Andrew Bane, 33, Yardley, World Trade Center
• Jasper Baxter, 45, Philadelphia, World Trade Center
• James Patrick Berger, 44, Lower Makefield, World Trade Center
• Harry Blanding Jr., 38, Blakeslee, World Trade Center
• Kevin L. Bowser, 45, Philadelphia, World Trade Center
• Joseph Calandrillo, 49, Hawley, World Trade Center
• Peter A. Chirchirillo, 47, Langhorne, World Trade Center
• Christopher Robert Clarke, 34, Philadelphia, World Trade Center
• Jeffrey Coale, 31, Souderton, World Trade Center
• Joseph W. Flounders, 46, East Stroudsburg, World Trade Center
• Donald G. Havlish Jr., 53, Yardley, World Trade Center
• Michael R. Horrocks, 38, Glen Mills, United Flight 175
• Donald W. Jones, 43, Fairless Hills, World Trade Center
• Lawrence Donald Kim, 31, Blue Bell, World Trade Center
• George Lopez, 40, Stroudsburg, World Trade Center
• Joseph Lostrangio, 48, Langhorne, World Trade Center
• Walter Arthur McNeil, 53, East Stroudsburg, Emergency/Rescue Personnel
• Mary Melendez, 44, Stroudsburg, World Trade Center
• Alan H. Merdinger, 47, Allentown, World Trade Center
• Louis J. Nacke, 42, New Hope, United Flight 93
• Timothy F. O'Sullivan, 68, Albrightsville, World Trade Center
• Jonas Martin Panik, 26, Mingoville, Pentagon
• Laura Marie Ragonese-Snik , 41, Bangor, World Trade Center
• Efrain Franco Romero Sr., 57, Hazleton, World Trade Center
• Victor J. Saracini, 51, Lower Makefield Township, United Flight 175
• Larry John Senko, 34, Yardley, World Trade Center
• Johanna Sigmund, 25, Syndmoor, World Trade Center
• George Eric Smith, 38, West Chester, World Trade Center
• William R. Steiner, 56, New Hope, World Trade Center
• Sandra Wright, 57, Langhorne, World Trade Center

All 9/11 victims will be remembered at memorial services planned across the nation on Sept. 11 to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks.

At the 9/11 memorial in Lower Manhattan, New York — an area known for years after the attacks as "Ground Zero" — the names of the fallen will be read aloud.

"Throughout the ceremony, we will observe six moments of silence, acknowledging when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and fell and the times corresponding to the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93," the 9/11 Memorial & Museum wrote on its website.

The annual "Tribute of Light," which are lights pointed to the sky in the shape of the Twin Towers, will go on that night.

Most 9/11 victims were from either New York or New Jersey, where many who lived across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center recall the horror of watching the twin towers collapse from their homes in Hoboken and Jersey City.