Together now

Posted by genniii

Beverly is now with Sean. My prayers and sympathy are with her friends and family.

Posted by Barb

May you and your wife be united together at last. She loved you so...

Posted by Linda

Beverly Eckert, whose husband died at the World Trade Center, and the founder of Voices of September 11th. Beverly Eckert died this morning in the crash of flight 3407.

Thank you for your work. I am so sorry for the loss.

Posted by C. King

Your wife is with you now... strange how a plane caused her to leave this earth too soon, just as it ultimately did for you. Rest in peace.

Posted by Michelle Baker

I wish your friends and family peace and solace.

Posted by James

Sean, we miss you as much as always and am finding solace that Beverly has now joined you.

Love Glenn & Jodi

Posted by Glenn and Jodi Cameron

You have your bride with you now. Strange how life works but just maybe it was part of God's plan.

Posted Siobhan Kieras

I met Sean shortly after he and his wife Beverly Eckert moved from Buffalo to work in New York City. He left the restaurant industry to start a new career in risk management / financial services joining a company where I worked in 10 Rockefeller Center. Beverly worked in the same business and later relocated to Connecticut with Sean where she pursued a successful career in reinsurance.

We became fast friends and shared much in common outside of our careers. My wife and I were transplants in New York from Canton, OH. We moved to a diverse low rise turn of the century brownstone neighborhood in Brooklyn while Sean and Beverly moved to a similar community in Elizabeth, NJ with neat pre-war single family homes. When together, we enjoyed sharing ideas on our common interests like restoration, renovation, cooking and community and were fortunate to see them regularly over the years we knew them.

Sean and I both worked in Two World Trade Center for different companies and I was there for the bombing in February 1993. I relocated to Chicago in 1998 but regularly commuted back to work at the company’s US headquarters in Two World Trade Center where I saw Sean often. I last spoke with him on Thursday, September 06, 2001. We were planning to have lunch but we were both busy with work that day. I remember saying… Let's have lunch in two weeks when I am back in town… We made plans…

The following Tuesday 9/11/2001 I was in Tampa, FL on business when I learned a plane struck One World Trade Center. After the towers collapsed I got word that most of my colleagues in Two World Trade Center were believed to be safe. I knew Sean’s home phone # by heart and dialed it… Beverly answered (she was at home, a short walk from her office in Stamford, CT). Beverly said “He’s gone” After providing details of her final conversation with Sean before the building collapse Beverly said “I am not going to mourn Sean’s death… I am going to celebrate his life”

Two years after we had lunch and she told me she had no idea how much she would miss him… then cried. They were meant for each other and I cried with her…

I kept in touch with Beverly until her death in 2009. Beverly became a leading advocate for airline safety and often traveled to Washington to speak with 9-11 committees. On the evening of 2/12/2009, I was at Newark Airport returning to Chicago from my company’s office in New Jersey. I woke up the next morning to see a photo of Beverly on the morning news, then footage of the wreckage of a burning plane. Beverly was on a flight from Newark to Buffalo to present a scholarship in Sean’s name and a passenger on Colgan Air Flight 3407. It is suspected inadequate training contributed to the pilot’s inappropriate response to the stall warnings following icing on the aircraft wings.

Posted by Kevin Doerschuk

I am thankful for the impact Sean and Beverly had on my life and Sean still occasionally appears in my dreams, as if to tell me he is still present and a part of it.

Posted by Kevin Doerschuk