9-11 Memorial: Remembering Wellesley's Own 16 Years Later

WELLESLEY, MA — As police and fire departments across the country remember the thousands who died as a result of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Commonwealth is remembering the 206 who lost their lives as a result. At least four Wellesley residents died in the attacks.

About 30 people, mostly fire and police, gathered at the Wellesley Fire Department's headquarters on Route 9 to remember what happened. Meanwhile the state house lowered the flag and then read the names of those lost in the attacks 16 years ago. Logan airport held a minute of silence at 8:46 a.m. to remember those aboard the two hijacked planes that took off from Logan. The Governor and Boston Mayor Walsh will go to the Boston Public Garden this afternoon, where a tree was seeded from the 9/11 Survivor Tree and given to the City of Boston.

The names of those with strong connections to Wellesley who were lost in 9/11:

(If we missed someone send us the info and we'll update as we go)

John Cahill, was a retired employee of Xerox and was enroute to California to do some private business consulting when he perished aboard United Flight 175, one of the Boston-originating flights that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, according to his obituary.

Edmund Glazer was on American Airlines Flight 11. He likely heard the flight attendant instruct the passengers to put away their cell phones and computers, but punched in his wife Candy’s number anyway. "Hi, hon. I made it," he said in the message, according to this page.

Neilie Casey, 32, a merchandise planning manager for TJX Co. had just returned to work in July from a maternity leave after giving birth to her then 7-month-old daughter and changed jobs only six weeks before to be closer to her family and home. She ran the Komen Race for the (breast cancer) Cure the Sunday before with her husband, Michael, and daughter Riley in a baby jogger, and would have celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary the next week had she not crashed aboard Flight 11, according to Patch.

Patrick J. Quigley IV, age 40, he and his wife, Patricia, bought a house in Wellesley to put down roots the summer before Sept. 11, 2001. Quigley, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, was on Flight 175 on Sept. 11.He left behind his 6-year-old daughter Rachel, and his very pregnant wife. His daughter Leah, who was born a month after he passed.