One Who Wandered But Who Was Never Lost

 

Gayle R. Greene - Montville, New Jersey

Photo Credit:  Voices Center for Resilience

Gayle R. Greene spent a lot of her life on the road.  Ms. Greene, a Vice-President at Marsh & McLennan who worked at the firm's offices at the World Trade Center, spent four hours every day commuting between her office and her home in Montville, New Jersey.   The Vice-President of the firm's Professional Resource Group, she was in her office on the 100th floor of the North Tower when the murderous cowards who had hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 after it took off from Boston's Logan Airport bound for California, flew the jet into the building.  Gayle Greene was just fifty-one years old. 

Notwithstanding her inarguable proficiency at her job and her workaholic tendencies, back and forth between Morris County, New Jersey and Lower Manhattan was not her favorite trip.  She had what is often referred to as wanderlust.  She took two trips every year, to locales as diverse as Alaska, Las Vegas, and the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  Her favorite place?  Hawaii.    

Her best friend and roommate, Eileen Carey, noted that Gayle Greene often said that the best day of her life was one she spent on a catamaran off the emerald-hued Na Pali coast of Kauai.   

In her will, she directed that her ashes be scattered there.  

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-AK