DINAH WEBSTERAdvertising manager Dinah Webster died with her fiancé in the 9/11 attacks on America in 2001.
Miss Webster, 50, and her partner, Neil Cudmore, who both worked for the same company, had been engaged just a week when they were killed in the atrocity.
They were attending a conference in the World Trade Center in New York when the first of two planes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the twin towers.
The event was being held on the 106th floor of the north tower in the panoramic Windows on the World restaurant when the aircraft struck at 8.46am – several floors below where the delegates were assembled.
Fourteen other employees of the Risk Waters Group and around 65 guests attending the company’s inaugural Waters magazine congress lost their lives in the ensuing fire and collapse of the building.
Miss Webster, who was originally from Bridport, Dorset,was the firm’s longest serving member of staff, having joined the financial services business at its London office in 1989, and was head of North American sales at the time of her death.
She was transferred to the company’s Hong Kong office in 1995 and met Mr Cudmore when he was also moved there. In January 2000, they were posted to the New York office and had recently bought a house on Long Island together. They also owned a house in Netherbury, Dorset, and had planned to get married in 2002.
After the attacks the families of the 67 British victims set up the September 11 UK Families Support Group and a website to remember their loves ones.
In a tribute on the site, her aunt, Mary Jolliffe, described Miss Webster as a fun-loving, generous person with a gift for seeing the funny side of life. She had "an indefinable quality that made people happy to please her, and her smile added a ray of sunshine to many whose lives she touched even briefly," she said.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners on internal flights. The first two were flown into the World Trade Center, destroying the iconic landmark. The third smashed into the Pentagon and the fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers tried to retake the aircraft.
All those on the planes were killed instantly. Many more died on the ground as they were crushed by falling buildings.
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