Gertrude "Trudi" M. Alagero
On what tragically proved to be the final weekend of her too-young life, Gertrude "Trudi" Alagero celebrated her 37th birthday with her fiance, Peter Walther. As the couple walked together to the subway from their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, she told him, "I am the luckiest woman in the world."
Ms. Alagero and Mr. Walther were to be married in Boston on January 5, 2002. Unfortunately, on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at 8:46 a.m. Ms. Alagero, a senior vice president at Marsh Private Client Services, a division of Marsh & McLennan, was at work on the 94th floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower when the murderous cowards who hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 crashed it into the building.
Her brother, Paul, said that he considered himself lucky to have spent thirty-seven great years with his sister. He described her as a person who enjoyed every facet of her life. Peter Walther described her as being as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside.
A too-rare quality to be sure.
-AK
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