FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2001
Onslow family loses daughter in attack.
Jacksonville High grad worked on 102nd floor of World Trade Center
BY WILLIAM DAVIS
DAILY NEWS STAFF
The last time David Crew spoke to his daughter, Beverly Curry, she told him the time had come for her and her husband to start a family.
That dream disappeared Sept. 11 when the first plane struck the World Trade Center tower where Curry worked on the 102nd floor as an operations manager with bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Although her remains have not been found, the family, who lives in Jacksonville, has decided the time has come to lay her to rest.
Studious 'military brat'
Curry, 41, grew up in Jacksonville, graduating from Jacksonville High School. Curry's mother divorced Crew in 1971 and moved to Texarkana, Ark. Her father remembers her as a quiet, studious girl -- who loved to sit reading alone while her sisters were outside playing.
"I was a military person at the time, and she was a military brat," Crew said.
Curry met her husband, Frank Curry, a Marine, while attending church in Jacksonville and the two moved to Charlotte and then Atlanta. In 1985, she moved to New York and got an associate's degree from the College of Staten Island. When she disappeared, she was one year away from getting a bachelor's degree in business, said Rosa Crew, David's wife. The couple's home was in Staten Island, N.Y.
As she grew up, the young girl who loved to read remained a studious person, according to her father. A Jehovah's Witness, Curry taught the Bible to the children of that faith.
"There's not much you can say, because she did everything right," David Crew said.
In June, the Crews visited New York, even taking photos of the World Trade Center. During the visit, Curry's father said Curry told him she was excited about being able to take time off to visit Jacksonville.
A memorial service for Curry will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Roe Street Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness on Staten Island. Curry's firm -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- has set up a college scholarship fund in her name, and the family requests that, in lieu of flowers, people should donate to the fund in care of Debbie Crew-Johnson at 728 West Cobbs Creek Parkway, P.O. Box 566, Landsdown, PA 19050.
Around 300 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage. More than 6,300 people remain missing, with officials holding out little hope of finding any more survivors.
While the attacks affected hundreds of companies in the towers, Cantor Fitzgerald, which occupied the 101st and 103rd through 105th floors of the first tower to be hit, probably lost more of its employees than any other single firm. More than 700 of the bond trading company's roughly 1,000 employees are missing and presumed dead.
Analysts count the company as one of the world's largest bond brokerages. Last year, the firm was responsible for nearly $5 trillion in bond transactions.
William Davis can be contacted at [email protected].
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