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A8 Sunday, January 12, 1997 FMO THE VICTIMS The Cincinnati Enquirer I 6 We all really feel a sense of loss in our lives Comair Kim Passariello LAKE HAVASU.ARIZ. she'd found it in sales at Procter Gamble Co. in Cincinnati. Friday, friends gathered outside her dorm room with candles and flow Son tried in vain to reach dad's bedside Missing a Northwest Airlines flight out of Las Vegas on Thursday didn't stop Kim Passariello from trying to reach his father's bedside at St. Mary's Hospital in Saginaw, Mich.

Mr. Passariello, 41, booked an ers to mourn the outgoing 21-year-old. "She was radiant" said Padma Guthikonda, a UM senior in anthropology from Plymouth, Mich. "She just had a smile on her tr Gregory Barrow, an avid golfer and swimmer, had moved to Florida to escape Michigan's winters. He graduated from high school in Port Orange, Fla.

and joined the U.S. Coast Guard for four years. After a Coast Guard posting in his native state, he decided to return. He wanted to be an attorney like his brother and sister, Lynda. "He would have been great" his father said.

"He was so kind and so compassionate." Maureen DeMarco ENGLEWOOD, COLO. Teacher was planning service for brother Maureen DeMarco was thinking of her brother before she left for Detroit She was armed with excerpts from books such as The i- i Arati Sharangpani face all the time. She was very energetic and alternate flight to Detroit, connecting through Cincinnati on Comair3272. "He desperately tried to get here before his father's surgery and that's the only way he could make connections," said in the red-brick house. "We all really feel a sense of loss in our lives," neighbor Jack Richter said Friday.

"He was a great neighbor and a good person. "We always said hello and chatted." Comair pilot David Buck of Union flew with Mr. Reece last week to Charleston, S.C., and back. "I know he was a good pilot When you fly with someone you know whether they were competent" Mr. Buck said.

During their stint that day, the two pilots talked about Mr. Reece's new, two-story house. "He was just doing things to customize it to make it his house," Mr. Buck said. The house sits near the top of Morris Road's incline.

"He was real excited because this was the first house he had purchased," Mr. Richter said. "He was the type of person you'd like to see get settled in the neighborhood and have children and start a family." A green garden hose hangs on the house's left side. The garage door wears a fresh coat of white paint Behind it sits Mr. Reece's pride.

"He had a hobby of restoring antique cars and he had an Anglia that my 11-year-old son found fascinating," Mr. Richter said. This fall Mr. Reece's father towed a classic English Ford to Northern Kentucky from the Monterey, suburb of Carmel, where Kenneth Reece grew up. Last fall, Mr.

Reece and his father spent rcurs in the driveway polishing the vehicle. -1 in--, I 11' JJ. 1 li 1 .1 Kim Pasariello Prophet, which FT Mtei in jrf she planned to read at his memorial service. Her brother, Brian "Butch" Scully, 36, an airplane mechanic in North Carolina, died three days before Christmas in a cargo jet crash. truly concerned about people." Ms.

Sharangpani was a resident assistant in a freshman dorm, running programs on stress management time management and fitness, said Alan Levy, UM's director of housing public affairs. Counselors helped students cope with their grief Friday. "She was the most bubbly person in the world," saidT. Rose Roane, UM's coordinator of residence education. "Even if she was depressed, you wouldn't know it because she was so upbeat" Betty Jean Jones DETROIT College dean loved stage, theater students Betty Jean Jones was an actress, director and teacher whose love for the theater was matched only by her love for her students, her friends said.

It was her passion for theater that put her on Maureen DeMarco Dexter Adams PADDOCK HILLS exec excelled Comair's ill-fated Ursula Martin of Livonia, an aunt who was waiting to drive her nephew to Saginaw when his plane crashed. The last she heard from Mr. Passariello, a self-employed carpenter who moved from Saginaw to Lake Havasu, 15 years ago, was a message he left on her answering machine at 2:1 1 p.m. Thursday. "My dad didn't even know he was coming," said Mr.

Passariello's younger sister, Sheryl Cergunal, struggling to suppress her grief Friday as her father, John Passariello, underwent bypass surgery. "He kept asking for him but the surgeon didn't think we should tell him," said Mrs. Martin. "He would not have survived that shock." A divorced father of four daughters and grandfather of two Kim Passariello was engaged to remarry. Arizona's warmth lured him out west "He liked the mountains, he was another John Denver," Mrs.

Martin recalled. "He was an easy, easygoing happy person. "It's just totally unbelievable." Darlene Zagar DANVILLE, KY. Manager loved pace of marketing job Darlene Zagar was in her element Thursday. Once again she was jetting off on a business trip.

As marketing manager for Mathews Conveyor Division, the Danville, woman spent two to three weeks a month on the road and in the air. "She was bragging that she had a plane Thursday night The 47-year-old University of Michigan professor was returning to her Detroit home after attending the third international Senior Theater Confer Mrs. DeMarco, 37, planned to meet their grieving mother at Detroit Metro Airport and travel together to their hometown. But as Adele Colagiovanni waited at Gate A9, she learned that the oldest of her four children met the same fate. Back in the Denver suburb of Englewood, husband Tony DeMarco stayed home with their 8-year-old daughter, Alexandra, expecting his wife back by today.

Mrs. DeMarco, head of the foreign language department at St Mary's Academy outside Denver, planned to be back in the classroom Monday, teaching Spanish. Instead, mourners streamed into their house after learning of the family's added tragedy. "It's beyond belief," said Mr. DeMarco, a sports writer at the Denver Post.

There's no odds for it" It seemed the two would be together forever. They grew up in Harper Woods, and fell in love as teen-agers working at a movie theater. They attended Wayne State University and married in 1986. "We always pretty much agreed on everything," Mr. DeMarco said, searching for the right words.

"She was smart demanding, a great mom. It was a good situation." Roy Raymond Verna Marie Raymond Betty Jean. Jones and then smoke a good cigar, served nine years as a combat-ready helicopter pilot in the Army before joining Procter Gamble's purchasing division in 1987. "Flying the helicopter, that was dangerous," his widow, Angela Adams, said softly Thursday night shortly after a Comair official called to confirm what she had expected to hear all night Mr. Adams chaired a committee for Summit Country Day School to recruit African-American faculty members.

He officiated at the ATP Tennis Tournament in Mason and the U.S. Open in New York. He landscaped his neighbor's lawn for free. He took karate lessons with his 8-year-old daughter, Ayrenne. As a senior purchasing manager at Procter Gamble, Mr.

Adams flew abroad frequently to Europe, Latin America and Asia. The irony for loved ones was that he died on the way to his hometown on a routine recruiting trip. "Everybody loves D.C.," said Rodney Swope, a senior purchasing man- ager at Procter Gamble. Dexter Adams wowed the roomful of Procter Gamble Co. executives at a Fairfield reception hall Thursday with his presentation on strategies to improve company results.

There was no time to absorb accolades because Mr. Adams, 41, known as "DC," had to catch a 2:30 p.m. flight to Detroit His colleagues joked as Mr. Adams darted out the door that he'd never make the plane. He made it That matter of haste has irrevocably altered his family's life and jolted pockets of Cincinnati: its tennis community, Procter Gamble, the faculty at Summit Country Day School and hundreds of neighbors and friends.

"He did an outstanding job," said friend and colleague Woodrow Keown, who watched the presentation. "I'd say it was a defining moment" A Detroit native, Mr. Adams graduated from West Point in 1978. He was described in the yearbook as one of the military academy's most versatile athletes. The man who friends say could have written a book on time management play a three-hour tennis match golden card because of all the frequent-flier Verna Marie and Roy Raymond TWIN FALLS, IDAHO Couple shared success to help community Roy and Verna Marie Raymond's lives centered on Ford cars.

And it was a car show that drew the Twin Falls couple onto Comair's fatal flight Thursday. They were really excited about seeing all the new models of cars," said Cal Bonander, the couple's son-in-law. Roy's first job was as a sales representative at a Ford dealership. Verna Marie quit a loved job as a surgical technician to work in a dealership her husband bought in Twin Falls, Idaho. They drove Fords and Fords drove them, paying for the upbringing of their six children and making them wealthy enough to become admired civic figures.

They were great community supporters," said Kent Just president of the Twin Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. "Just last week, Roy gave a $30,000 check to the Chamber to use in an education project we haven't even miles she had racked up," said her younger brother, Andrew Zagar, who said his family has done a lot of "holding, hugging and crying" in the days since Charles Jones MCCOMB, MISS. Sports was passion for union official Only business trips kept Charles Jones of McComb, from sporting events. Basketball. Football.

Whatever. If his kids played it he was there. Mr. Jones, 42, a shipping clerk and union representative for Delphi Darlene Zagar the crash. by Time, placing him in the running for the magazine's nationwide dealer-of-the-year award.

He was vice presi named yet He said, 'I know you're going to need it so here's the money to get something He was just like that" For years, the couple had been the top contributors in time and money to United Way in Twin Falls. Roy, 56, was recently named Idaho's automobile dealer of the year Packard Electric, was traveling to Detroit to complete a union contract His wife, where he would have been at a South Pike High basketball game when word came of her hus dent of the Idaho Association of Commerce, and an avid fisherman, golfer and skier. Verna Marie, 57, had maintained ties with the medical community by volunteering for the Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, Mr. Bonander said. Gregory Barrow DETROIT Coast Guard veteran hoped to be attorney Gregory Barrow's spent his last day with family and friends in the Florida sunshine.

The Lapeer, native visited his family in Ponce Inlet outside i. ence in Las Vegas last week with her elderly father. "She was an ideal member of the faculty because she combined an active practitioner's passion as actress, director and dramatist- with very impressive credentials as a scholar," said Paul Boylan, dean of UM'8 School of Music and vice provost for the arts. Ms. Jones was single and had no children.

She worked at UM since 1994, and last year was named associate dean of UM's Rackham School of Graduate Studies. She loved playwright Eugene O'Neill and his talent for telling tragedies without resorting to melodrama, Mr.Dean Boylan said. She also enjoyed African-American plays. "She was a wonderfully inquisitive and eager-to-learn type of individual," said Tom Behm, director of University of North Carolina at Greensboro theater. "I remember a production she did of the Greek drama Medea it was so beautifully realized." Keita Takenami LEXINGTON, KY.

Kentucky new home for Toyota official Keita Takenami was as at home in the bluegrass of Kentucky as he was on the crowded streets of his native Japan. Mr. Takenami, 47, first came to Kentucky in 1987 to help start Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Kentucky's Georgetown plant He stayed three years before returning to Japan to work at Toyota's Tsutsumi plant But four years later, he was on his way back to Kentucky. "He really enjoyed being here," said Tom Harris, spokesman for Toyota. Mr.

Takenami, who grew up in Okazaki City, Japan, about 250 miles southwest of Toyko, was a coordinator of quality assurance for the George- town plant "When he first came here, that meant a lot of his time was spent in training and helping the American team members understand the Toyota way," Mr. Harris said. "Recently, he was working a lot with the suppliers on quality parts and things like that" Mr. Takenami, an avid golfer, was called "Keith" by his co-workers. He and his wife, Keiko, raised their chil- dren in Lexington, Ky.

His daughter, Kayo, is 18, and his son, Yuki, is 13. Mr. Harris said Mr. Takenami was on his way to meet with suppliers and attend an auto show in Detroit when the plane crashed! "He was an integral part of this plant" Mr. Harris said.

"Everybody loved to work on his team." Charles Jones Family and friends remembered Ms. Zagar as a woman who rarely frowned. Unless, of course, a customer was dissatisfied. Then she was on the "warpath," as one co-worker put it But she earned a reputation for remedying problems quickly. "I know as time moves on, it will go through the back of my mind, I won't hear it 'Darlene just took care of said David J.

Martin, company president She had spent 22 years at the company that designs, manufactures and installs conveyor systems and parts. The family was planning a birthday celebration this weekend for Ms. Zagar, who would have turned 42 today, said brother-in-law Ken Price. Ms. Zagar had planned to celebrate her birthday with best friend and coworker Cheryl Rodgers.

Just before 11 a.m. Thursday, Ms. Zagar stopped by Ms. Rodgers' office to bid her farewell. She was on her way to Detroit for a one-day training seminar.

Ms. Rodgers reminded her friend of their plans for Saturday. They would dine out and indulge in one of their favorite pastimes: shopping. With that they exchanged goodbyes, and Ms. Zagar was off to the airport "That was the last time I saw her," Ms.

Rodgers said. "She had a smile on her face." Kenneth V. Reece FORT WRIGHT New home, new life was flyer's passion When he wasn't flying Comair planes, First Officer Kenneth V. Reece, 28, spent his time turning his house into a home. In August he purchased a home on Morris Road in Fort Wright for $78,000.

He and fiancee Pamela Mockbee, formerly of Anderson Township, lived ofDaytona Beach, to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. Although returning to his Detroit home meant snow and cold, he was excited about completing his last semester at Wayne State Uni Jennifer and Nicholas Rosiak 3 band's fate. "He played everything, and actually, he was pretty good," she said with a slight laugh, recalling the man she met when both were students at South Pike High. "He would have been a good retired person because he loved golf." Mr. Jones served on the South Pike school board, organized the Brookhaven Hoopfest basketball tournament and attended St John Baptist Church.

His favorite music was gospel and blues. A man who valued education, he was proud his daughter, Shemika, 18, was a freshman at the University of Southern Mississippi, one of three children. "She's the one I'm leaning on, she's keeping me on my feet" Mrs. Jones said. Arati Sharangpani HOLLAND, MICH.

Student had found her perfect job Arati Sharangpani was a bright student who had attracted plenty of potential employers. But she kept searching for that elusive perfect job. Thursday, just before she boarded a plane back to the University of Michigan she called a friend to say Gregory Barrow FAIRBANKS. ALASKA Right was gift for mom, infant son It was the last gift under the tree, and Jennifer Rosiak was thrilled. Her husband, James, a senior airman at Eiel-son Air Force Base, Alaska, had surprised her with airline tickets for her and 8-month-old son Nicholas to visit her mother near Detroit The visit was to have been special, said her aunt Josephine Yackaboskie, of Spotswood, NJ.

It would Jennifer Rosiak versity, where he was studying to be a tax attorney. His father, Dr. Leonard Barrow, said Gregory, 31, studied at home Thursday, then drove his rental car to Fort Lauderdale to visit a friend. His family went on to Tallahassee, where older brother, Leonard received an award from the Florida Supreme Court for his pro bono work as an attorney. When Leonard and Ruth Barrow arrived home late Thursday, they had a message on their answering machine to call Comair.

"We didn't even know there was a crash," Leonard Barrow said. have been the first time for her mother to meet her new grandson. All three Rosiaks had spent New Year's in New Jersey. Last week, they said goodbye at the Philadelphia airport James would fly to Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, the family's next assignment Mother and son were to go to Detroit via Cincinnati before reuniting in Phoenix. "If a sad story," said Capt Sandy Troeber, public information officer for Eielson Air Force Base.

Said Mrs. Yackaboskie: "She was a sweet girl." A.