9/11 Memorial Park Ready for Visitors

The solemn anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., will be recognized on Friday.

Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department reminds residents of the local memorial for those who died, as well as the 24 residents of Prince George’s County who were killed in the attack on the Pentagon.

The 9/11 Memorial Park, dedicated on Sept. 11, 2006, is located near the entrance of the Bladensburg Waterfront Park and Peace Cross. The memorial has a brick sidewalk lined with white crepe myrtle trees for each of the residents killed in the attacks.

There is also a granite memorial with the inscription, ‘‘Prince George’s County honors those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. We will always remember them.”

Prince George’s residents who died in the Sept. 11 attacks are:

• Samantha Lightbourn-Allen, 36, of Forestville

• Carrie Blagburn, 48, of Temple Hills

• Angelene C. Carter, 51, of Forestville
• Julian Cooper, 39, of Springdale

• Ada Davis, 57, of Camp Springs

• *James Debeuneure, 58, of Upper Marlboro

• *Charles S. Falkenberg, 45, University Park
• *Leslie Whittington, 45, University Park
• *Dana Falkenberg, 3, University Park
• *Zoe Falkenberg, 9, University Park

• Sandra Foster, 41, of Clinton

• Carolyn Halmon, 49, of Fort Washington

• Sheila Hein, 51, of University Park

• Jimmie Ira Holley, 54, of Lanham

• Brenda Kegler, 49, of Capitol Heights

• Gerard P. Moran Jr., 39, of Upper Marlboro

• Odessa V. Morris, 54, of Upper Marlboro

• James John Pycior Jr., 39, of Landover

• Cecelia E. Richard, 41, of Fort Washington

• Robert E. Russell, 52, of Oxon Hill

• Antionette Sherman, 35, of Forest Heights

• Edna Stephens, 53, of Capitol Heights

• *Hilda E. Taylor, 62, of Forestville

• Kevin Wayne Yokum, 27, of New Carrollton

* Denotes resident who died on American Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. All other residents were at the Pentagon. Source: Gazette Newspaper, September 7, 2011 edition.