The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks killed 2,977 people, including 2,753 in New York, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 in Pennsylvania. In Nebraska, families and friends grieved for four of their own.
Julie Geis, 44, formerly of Beaver Crossing, lived near Kansas City, Mo., but also worked in the World Trade Center for Aon Corp., a Chicago-based risk management, insurance brokerage, reinsurance and consulting company. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln later retired the softball jersey of Geis, who played for the Huskers 1976-79.
Navy Capt. Larry Getzfred, 57, formerly of Elgin, worked as the senior watch officer in the Pentagon's Navy Command Center, where he would have been monitoring the attacks in New York City on the morning of Sept. 11. Getzfred enlisted after high school, received two college degrees and served his country for 38 years. He was married with two daughters.
Monte Hord, 46, formerly of Central City, worked as vice president for institutional equities at Cantor Fitzgerald in the World Trade Center. The 1977 University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate -- voted "best looking" and "best dressed" by his classmates in high school -- moved to New York after working in Chicago. Hord and his wife had three children.
Jennifer Dorsey Howley, 34, a Lincoln Southeast High School graduate, worked as a director for Aon Corp. at the World Trade Center. She had a lifelong love of music, and in her honor, Southeast opened the Jennifer L. Dorsey Howley Performing Arts Center in February 2009. On Sept. 11, she was pregnant with her family's first child.
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Julie Geis, 44, formerly of Beaver Crossing, lived near Kansas City, Mo., but also worked in the World Trade Center for Aon Corp.
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Monte Hord, 46, formerly of Central City, worked as vice president for institutional equities at Cantor Fitzgerald in the World Trade Center.Â
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Jennifer Dorsey-Howley, a Lincoln Southeast graduate, was five months pregnant with her first child, when she died on 9/11.
