Patricia's recovered items.
A prayer card in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
Some of Patricia's personal items.
Some of Patricia's personal items.
Some of Patricia's personal and recovered items.
Patricia Fagan's recovered purse.
Some of Patricia's recovered items
Some of Patricia Fagan's recovered and personal items.
Some of Patricia Fagan's recovered and personal items.
Patricia Fagan's recovered wallet with her insurance card and subway pass.
A recovered and personal item of Patricia's.
Patricia Fagan's recovered and personal items.
Patricia Fagan's recovered eyeglasses.
The Property Clerk Invoice for Patricia's recovered items.
Patricia Fagan's recovered and personal items
Patricia Fagan's recovered eyeglasses and case.
Patricia Fagan's personal and recovered items.
Prayer cards in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
Prayer cards in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
Patricia Fagan's recovered money.
Patricia Fagan's recovered makeup
Patricia Fagan's recovered makeup
A recovered item of Patricia's.
Some of Patricia Fagan's recovered and personal items.
Patricia Fagan's recovered purse.
Patricia Fagan's recovered money.
Patricia Fagan's recovered glasses
Patricia Fagan's recovered glasses case
Patricia Fagan's recovered makeup.
Patricia Fagan's recovered makeup.
Patricia Fagan's recovered makeup.
Patricia Fagan's recovered wallet.
Patricia Fagan's identification card.
Patricia Fagan's recovered driver's license.
Patricia Fagan's recovered health insurance card
Recovered item of Patricia's.
Patricia Fagan's credit card
Patricia Fagan's credit card
Patricia Fagan's Allstate card
Patricia Fagan's health insurance card
Patricia Fagan's identification card.
Patricia Fagan's recovered bus pass
Personal item of Patricia's.
Patricia Fagan's car insurance card
Patricia Fagan's car insurance card
Patricia Fagan's Allstate card
Memorial/prayer beads in remembrance of Patricia Fagan.
Memorial/prayer beads in remembrance of Patricia Fagan.
Item of Remembrance of Patricia
A prayer card in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
A prayer card in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
A prayer card in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
A prayer card in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
A prayer card in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
Patricia's recovered Kastle Systems key
Patricia's recovered World Trade Center Pouch.
Patricia's recovered World Trade Center Pouch.
The contents of Patricia's recovered World Trade Center Pouch.
A personal and recovered item of Patricia's.
Patricia's recovered identification card.
Patricia Fagan's Brown leather wallet containing:
5 motor vehicle registrations from the state of New Jersey
Identification card for Alexander & Alexander
5 Allstate insurance cards
copy of Aetna US healthcare card
1 voters card for Ocean County, New Jersey
1 NJTransit bus pass
1 New Jersey Drivers license for Patricia Fagan
1 Aetna US Healthcare card for Patricia Fagan
5 motor vehicle registrations from the state of New Jersey found in Patricia's recovered items.
A bus ticket found in Patricia's recovered items.
Bus tickets found in Patricia's recovered items.
Bus ticket found in Patricia's recovered items.
A NJ transit bus pass found in Patricia's recovered wallet.
Patricia's blue pocketed checkbook cover filled with business cards, appointment cards, bus tickets, and little notes of paper.
Bus tickets found in Patricia's recovered purse
Bus ticket found in Patricia's recovered purse
Bus tickets found in Patricia's recovered purse
Patricia's recovered New Jersey Drivers license
Patricia's recovered New Jersey Drivers license
Patricia Fagan's recovered coin purse
Patricia Fagan's recovered coin purse
Patricia's lipstick in the color Passion Pink from Estee Lauder.
Patricia's lipstick in the color Passion Pink from Estee Lauder.
Patricia's lipstick in the color Sugar Rose from Estee Lauder.
Patricia's lipstick in the color Sugar Rose from Estee Lauder.
Patricia's lipstick in the color Sugar Rose from Estee Lauder.
Patricia's lipstick in the color Sugar Rose from Estee Lauder.
Patricia's recovered eyeglasses; one of the lens popped out.
Patricia's recovered eyeglass lens
Patricia Fagan's recovered eyeglasses
Patricia's recovered Saint Anthony prayer card, (laminated). According to her sister Eileen Fagan, Pat loved St. Anthony, explaining that St. Anthony was the patron saint of lost articles; that Pat couldn't stand to lose anything; and if she did she always prayed (successfully!) to St. Anthony to help her find it. When Pat worked in midtown, she would often go to St. Patrick's Cathedral and light a candle at St. Anthony's Shrine.
Patricia's recovered Saint Anthony prayer card, (laminated). According to her sister Eileen Fagan, Pat loved St. Anthony, explaining that St. Anthony was the patron saint of lost articles; that Pat couldn't stand to lose anything; and if she did she always prayed (successfully!) to St. Anthony to help her find it. When Pat worked in midtown, she would often go to St. Patrick's Cathedral and light a candle at St. Anthony's Shrine.
Patricia Fagan's recovered coin purse. She always carried lost of change.
A business card from Patricia Fagan's doctor, Robert E. Fabricant, Lakewood, NJ.
$163.63 found in Patricia's purse. Pat always carried cash and preferred it to credit cards, which she also carried.
5 motor vehicle registrations from the state of New Jersey found in Patricia's wallet.
Patricia's Identification card for Alexander & Alexander
5 Allstate insurance cards found in Pat's wallet
Pat's copy of her Aetna US healthcare card
Pat's voters card for Ocean City, New Jersey
Pat's NJ Transit bus pass
Pat's New Jersey Drivers license found in her recovered wallet.
Pat's Aetna US Healthcare card found in her recovered wallet
Pat's AON Group ID card found in her recovered wallet
Pat's AON Employee Benefit Plan-Dental card found in her recovered wallet.
Patricia's recovered credit cards.
Patricia's recovered coin purse. She always carried lots of change.
Patricia's blue pocketed checkbook cover filled with business cards, appointment cards, bus tickets, and little notes of paper.
Pat's Card-holder with Estee Lauder shopping / business card inside. (Note: at one time there was an Estee Lauder company store accessible to WTC employees; this is probably an access card to that store.)
Pat's recovered Estee Lauder lipsticks, in colors Passion Pink and Sugar Rose
Pat's recovered Estee Lauder brow pencil.
Pat's recovered Estee Lauder black compact, which was found broken.
Pat's recovered eyeglasses case
Pet's recovered electronic key
Pat's recovered Black or dark blue pocketbook, dirty and covered with dust. Pat liked to shop at Macy’s and probably purchased the pocketbook there.
A calcium pill found in Pat's recovered items
Pat's recovered prayer beads.
Pat's recovered prayer beads.
Pat's recovered eyeglasses, one of the lens popped out.
Pat's recovered black or dark blue pocketbook, dirty and covered with dust. Pat liked to shop at Macy’s and probably purchased the pocketbook there.
Pat's recovered black or dark blue pocketbook, dirty and covered with dust. Pat liked to shop at Macy’s and probably purchased the pocketbook there.
A portrait of Patricia Fagan
A portrait of Patricia Fagan.
A portrait of Patricia Fagan.
A photograph of Patricia with her mother, father, and sister, Eileen.
A photograph of Pat shaking hands with a coworker.
A photograph of Pat with her family.
A photograph of Pat with her family.
A photograph of Pat with her sister Eileen.
A photograph of Pat with her family.
A photograph of Pat with her family.
A photograph of Pat with her family.
A photograph of Pat shaking hands with a coworker.
A photograph of Pat with her parents.
A prayer card found in Patricia's recovered wallet.
A prayer card in loving memory of Patricia Fagan.
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Empty Sky: NJ State 9/11 Memorial
Queen Elizabeth II September 11 Memorial Garden
Conseleya 9/11 Memorial
Dewitt 9/11 Memorial
Montclair State University 9/11 Memorial
East Newark 9/11 Memorial
Fair Haven 9/11 Memorial
Freehold Township 9/11 Living Memorial Tree Grove
Though she came from a small family, Pat Fagan treated everyone she met as if she'd known them all her life. And so when she died on Sept. 11, she left behind not only a beloved younger sister, Eileen, and father, Thomas, but a river of friends as well.
"Pat talked to everyone," said Eileen Fagan, "and she knew them all by name -- the bakery lady, the hairdresser, the saleswoman at Macy's, the girl in the jewelry store in the mall . . . and they've all called."
Patricia M. Fagan was 55 and lived in Lakewood for 20 years before moving to Toms River in 1992.
Born in Manhattan, she grew up in the Bronx, where she attended St. Nicholas of Tolentine High School. For the last 26 years she was employed as an insurance adjuster for Aon Corp. and worked on the 93rd floor of Two World Trade Center.
A devout Catholic, Ms. Fagan was a communicant of St. Joseph's in Toms River and was a member of the church's hospitality committee, serving as a greeter at the Saturday 5 p.m. Mass. She was also a former volunteer at Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood.
This summer had been an especially joyful one, said Ms. Fagan's sister.
"Our cousin's daughter got married on Pat's birthday in July," she said, "and in August another daughter had the first grandchild in the family. The baby was born on the Feast of the Assumption and my sister felt that meant he'd be especially blessed. It was such a happy event."
In addition to her sister, Eileen A., and father, Thomas J., both of Toms River, Patricia Fagan is survived by three cousins, Mary Walsh of Pine Brook, Jeanne Rogers of East Brunswick and Rev. Joseph Doyle, S.J. of Jesuit High School in Tampa, Fla.
Relatives and friends will be received in the gathering space at St. Joseph R.C. Church, Toms River, on Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at noon.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Patricia M. Fagan Scholarship Fund, c/o St. Joseph's R.C. Church, 509 Hooper Ave., Toms River, N.J. 08753.
Profile by Amy Ellis Nutt published in THE STAR-LEDGER
New York Times Portraits of Grief
Patricia Fagan was a "classic gabber," said her sister, Eileen. She could not pick up dinner rolls at the store without striking up a conversation about the clerk's mother's arthritis. Or board the bus from Toms River to Lower Manhattan, where she was an insurance claims officer with Aon , without chatting with the drivers. Or check an insurance claim without finding out, for instance, about the weather or the claimant's children's schools.
As a result just about everybody in Toms River, where she grew up, knew her — the tall, exceptionally slender woman of 55 who had a word, or several, with everybody and never forgot a name. The official Saturday night greeter at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. (A volunteer job, said Eileen Fagan, that fit her sister perfectly.) After her death, letters from numerous insurance clients began to arrive: "I never met Pat," they all wrote. "I only knew her from business calls. But I feel like we've been friends for years."
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We miss you and love you Patty. We will never forget you. xoxoxo
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