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The Cincinnati Enquirer THE VICTIMS FMO Sunday, January 12, 1997 A9 FLIGHT "They were just as good as people can be Mark Herman NOVI, MICH. Rev. Keith Butler, pastor of Word of Faith Church, told the Detroit Free 'I Press. "He was a strong father and a ftr? 1 i i M'. i -i Scott Capt.

Dann Carlsen, pilot GRANT COUNTY, KY. Turboprop let pilot stay closer to home 0ann Carlsen, a seven-year veteran of Comair, was considered among Cornair's best Capt Carlsen, 42, was so good that he was an instructor who tailght other pilots how to fly the com- panys jets. But he recently left that work, instead to flying the twin-engine turboprop Embraea Brasilias. ith the flight simulators for the jets Montreal, teaching kept him too far away from his wife, Barbara, and their tome near Dry Ridge in rural Grant a co-worker said. than flying the company's bigger jets, Capt.

Carlsen preferred the flexibility of turboprops. He could choose his flights, his days off and layover locations. Capt. Carlsen had flown for Comair almost seven years. David Buck, a fellow Comair pilot, paid Capt.

Carlsen the highest compli-'fnent "I wouldn't have hesitated to get son an aircraft headed to Detroit with him, or to put my family on." Arthur Brice 'brookhaven, miss. Love for God put union rep in pulpit i Three years ago, Arthur Brice, a husband and father of two adult chil-. dren, answered his calling. He had long been active at St Paul's Missionary Baptist Church in his town of Brookhaven, Miss. But he yearned to do more.

So Mr. Brice, a union representative at Delphi Packard Electric, became an assistant pastor. The love he had for everybody, and the love he had for the Lord, that's what made him special," said his daughter, Myryan, 24. "But it was who he was, not what he did." The Rev. Mr.

Brice, 46, was the uncle of NFL player Alundis Brice. Mr. Brice also was past Sunday School superintendent and past choir director at his church. His devotion was typical of the close-knit deeply religious small Mississippi community. "He was one of the truest Christians I knew," said St Paul's pastor, Phil Sterling.

"He lived for his family and his church." Roger Bransford SANDY SPRINGS, GA. Investment manager kept life balanced Roger and Ave Bransford's paths first crossed when they were kinder-gartners, and they never strayed far from each other, according to the Atlanta Constitution. The schoolmate sweethearts mar 1 r--y and Christine Brownlee Couple always sought to better their lives Eng ineer sJalls helped teens learn Recently promoted by Dart Container Mark Herman was returning from a business trip to a company plant in North Carolina when he boarded Cornair's ill-fated flight 3272. The 27-year-old engineer had relocated from Lansing, to Novi, a Detroit suburb, so his wife Anne, 25, could attend medical school. "He was really kind of special to an awful lot of people here," said Ralph Mackenzie, vice president of technology at Dart Container in LA -J Mark Herman Mason, The company hired Mr.

Herman six-and-a-half years ago, first as a promising coop from Michigan Tech University. He shared his ingenuity as an engineer with Mason High School students participating in U.S. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a national competition in which professionals team with students to design robots. This would have been Mr. Herman's third year helping teen-agers prepare their inventions, which will be judged in March at Orlando's Epcot Center.

"Mark enjoyed working with young people," said Mr. MacKenzie, whose company also employs Mr. Herman's brother, Dave. "He had a great sense of humor," Mr. MacKenzie remembered.

"He was a great asset to our company and our department and just a good guy to be around. A lot of people are going to miss him very much." Teri Muskovitz WEST BLOOMFIELD, MICH. Religion was important to business traveler Teri Muskovitz had plans to attend a luncheon reunion on Tuesday with friends she had made studying Hebrew at the Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. The group of six women had forged such a special bond that they continued to keep in touch five years after they celebrated their Bat Mitzvah together, said Celia Lubetsky, one of the women in the Bat Mitzvah class. "We were a very unusual class in that we were all independent and older and we became very close," she said.

Mrs. Muskovitz, who turned 38 on New Year's Day, and her husband, Jerry, lived in West Bloomfield with their 11-year-old son. She had been returning home from a business trip. "She was a great mother. She was quiet in a gentle way," Mrs.

Lubetsky said. "She never raised her voice and her family always came first" Douglas Thomas DETROIT Metallurgist visited Cincinnati often Douglas A. Thomas was a respected metallurgist for Lukens Steel, a company based in Coatesville, Pa He had a reputation for talking with shop workers about problems with steel and was "very highly thought of as a metallurgist" said his supervisor, Fred Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher described Mr.

Thomas as a "terrific individual." Mr. Thomas was returning Douglas Thomas home from a business trip to Cincinnati a trip he made frequently. He was married and had two children, Mr. Fletcher said. Geoffrey Davis DETROIT Anniversary lured music minister home Geoffrey Davis, 35, a music minister at the Word of Faith Church outside Detroit cut short a mission to Georgia and California to be home Friday for his 15th wedding anniversary to his wife, Vanessa.

Mr. Davis, a gospel singer who performed with members of the Grammy-award winning Winans family, will be honored Tuesday night at the church where his singing and songwriting were greatly admired. "He truly believed music could minister God's message of love," the si great husband. Mr. Davis directed gospel choirs and wrote gospel music.

His last performance was the day before he died when he sang, "Laughing attheDeviL'a -a song he wrote, to Geoffrey a church congre- Davis gation in Delano, Calif, the Free Press reported Satur-' day. Richard Stearn WHITMORELAKE, MICH. Engineer made surer cars met standards Richard Stearn, 45, was headed home to Whitmore Lake, after a business trip to Utah when he boarded Comair Flight 3272. Mr. Steam's family referred all media calls to General Motors, where Mr.

Stearn worked for seven years as a supplier quality engineer in the company's Midsize and Luxury Car Group. "He was a fine employee," said Janine Fruehan, spokeswoman for General Motors. "He ensured that all our materials met standards for assembly. The company is doing everything it can to help his family get through this." Darinda Ogden Nilsen LEXINGTON, KY. Chance meeting won woman Comair job Darinda Ogden Nilsen loved to fly, just as she loved to ski, ice skate and dance.

She also spoke fluent French, which came in handy because her job as a flight attendant with Comair often took her to Montreal. The Lexington, resident majored in language at the University of Louisville, and spent the summer between her junior and senior years in France and elsewhere in Europe on a special work program. A scholarship student in high school and college who played piano and violin, she met her husband, Richard Nilsen at Louisville where he was in equine studies. They were married at the First Baptist Church in Newport where she had played the piano as a teen-ager. Her mother, Ruth Ogden, said Ms.

Nilsen always wanted to fly, and had set her sights on being a Delta flight attendant But a chance meeting at a restaurant with a Comair executive led her to the company's flight attendant school and a job just months after she graduated from college. When Ms. Nilsen, who used her maiden name at work, wasn't flying for Comair, she enjoyed her home life with her husband and their Samoyed dog, Edelweiss. She often visited her parents' home in Fort Thomas, and her room was always ready when she needed to sleep before an early morning flight and didn't have time for the 90-mile trip each way to and from Lexington. Darinda Ogden Nilsen and her husband Rick on their wedding day, Oct.

10, 1992 Contributing to this report: Enquirer reporters Tanya Bricking, Dana DiFilippo, Lisa Donovan, Terry" Flynn, Shari Goldhagen, B.G. "JS Gregg, Kathleen Hillenmeyer, Julie Irwin, John Johnston, Kym LeiWer, Sue MacDonald, Tom O'Neill, Jane n4 Prendergast, and Andrea Tortora. A i McEachern said, her voice breaking. They always wanted something better." Her sister was enrolled in college and wanted to become a physical therapist Mr. Brownlee wanted to advance as director of his firm, friends said.

"He was a perfectionist" next-door neighbor Mick Plovanic said, the kind of guy who built his own deck and helped neighbors work on their cars. Neighbors recall seeing her running every day and sometimes biking with her children. Their lives seemed ideal, Mr. Plovanic said. They were just as good as people can be," he said.

Wansedel's sister-in-law, Kassey Wylin. Then they would sell them and use the money to buy more antique cars to work on." He even used cars for celebration. The Wansedels had planned to celebrate Mr. Wansedel's 51st birthday this weekend by attending the Detroit Auto Show. Mr.

Wansedel had four children, was a grandfather of nine. A Richmond, resident for most of his life, Mr. Wansedel was a graduate of Richmond High School and Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich. Leo Felteau ATLANTA Indiana native loved water, home Leo Felteau's voice still greeted callers on his office voice-mail message Friday morning. At home, his mother answered the phone at Mr.

Felteau's home in Atlanta and politely offered information about her son. Mr. Felteau, 31, was Eastern regional sales manager for Western Graphtec, a computer equipment company. He had booked a seat on Comair Flight 3272 Thursday for a business trip to Detroit He had been married three years to Sandra Felteau. They had no children.

According to the Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Felteau was born in Bedford, and had lived most of his life in Georgia He was an Auburn University graduate who enjoyed water sports, home repair and his pet Doberman. HELENA, MONT. Last week, they left Mark, 13, and Johnny, 11, home with their aunt Debbie McEachern. Mr.

Brownlee, 34, and his wife, Mrs. Brownlee, 32, were flying to Detroit en route to nearby Windsor, Ontario, where she was scheduled for eye surgery Friday morning. She was tired of contact lenses, and this would correct her vision. When they returned, they planned to celebrate Mr. Brown-lee's 35th birthday on Monday.

Mrs. McEachern was sitting down to dinner with her nephews Thursday night when they got the chilling news. "It wasn't their time yet" Mrs. three children, Brett, 20, an accounting major at Mississippi State University, Corey, 17, and April, 12. Divorced, he remained close to his children, and was active in the local 4-H Club with them.

"You couldn't pinpoint one thing, he was just a great family person," said his wife's aunt Ed wina Allen. They all spent the Christmas holiday together. It Greg Douchard was a good, simple time." Mr. Douchard, raised in nearby Bassfield, worked for Delphi Packard Electric for 19 years and had hoped to retire from there to a more leisurely life on his farm in the hills of southern Mississippi. Charles Vansedel MOUNT CtEMMENS, MICH.

Cars allowed engineer to mix work, pleasure Charles Wansedel of Mount Clem-mens, loved cars. He earned his livelihood with cars as a supplier quality engineer for the mid-size and luxury car group at General Motors. With the company for more than 30 years, Mr. Wansedel was returning from a business trip in Utah. Cars were an interest Mr.

Wansedel shared with his wife of 17 years, Nancy. They would buy the cars, fix them up, and enter them into car contests," Scott Brownlee was a cook at a pancake house when his romance with Christine Brownlee began. She was a waitress. They fell in love, married, had two children and invested their lives in Helena, Mont He followed his father's footsteps, becoming a successful certified public accountant assistant executive director at the Montana Society of CPAs. She worked as a clerk at Montana Tunnels Mine, a gold processing mine just outside of town.

They put their greatest efforts, friends say, in raising their children. She kept their crayoned drawings posted at work. He coached one son's baseball team. Steven McClain WATERFORD, MICH. Business delayed father of two Steven McClain of Waterford, was returning home from a business trip Thursday a day later than he planned.

"He was supposed to have left the day before and he was delayed because of business," said neighbor Frank Kimmel. "He was an excellent excellent man, an excellent neighbor and friend." Mr. McClain is survived by his wife, Moya, and two daughters Alicia, 5, and Tara, 2. Mr. McClain's job as a technical consultant for Hewlett-Packard Co.

meant he logged many miles in the air, Mr. Kimmel said. "He was always on the road traveling," Mr. Kimmel said. "He went to the United Kingdom and he was all over the U.S.

traveling for them." Hewlett-Packard officials said Mr. McClain had worked in their Novi, office since April 1996. Greg Bouchard WESSON, MISS. Children, ranching competed with work Greg Douchard wore two distinctly different hats: shop committee chairman for a large employer, and cattle rancher. Mr.

Douchard, 50, lived on a farm, raising Polled Hereford cattle, which he showed at county fairs through Mississippi, often accompanied by his ried. Natives of Chatham they moved to Sandy Springs, planted roots and raised three sons Jess, Mike and Steve. Brans-ford, 52, managing director of Watson Wyatt Investment Con Roger Bransford sultants in Atlanta and a specialist in pension-plan investments, left Atlanta Wednesday for business meetings i with Cincinnati clients and was en i route Thursday to similar meetings in Battle Creek, Mich. He joined Watson Wyatt in February 1996. "He was one of the few people, I think, who truly had balance in his life," said Perry Johnson, a Watson Wyatt director.

"He gave tremendously to his family, he gave tremendously to his church, to his work, to his community and to various other charitable-type functions. "He was very rich in all the things that all of us would like to be rich in." Mr. Bransford was active in Little League and in his children's school. He also was former chairman of the board of Camp Dudley in West Point n.y. He was the kind of booster who never missed a home football game and stayed on as public address announcer even after the last of his sons had graduated about five years ago, the Rev.

James Hartnett, S.M., president of the school, told the Constitution Friday. i Said his wife: "He was my best friend for 47 years." "Roger's got a strong family," Mr. Johnson said. "He left them well-equipped to face this tragedy. But it's going to hard.

That house is going to feel empty for a long time." i.