What We Know About The Victims Of The Bucks County Flood

BUCKS COUNTY, PA —She was a mother of three children whose family had traveled from South Carolina to see relatives for a barbecue. Another was a woman who worked at the Washington Crossing Post Office who loved her dog.

The other three of five victims of the fatal Bucks County flash flood over the past weekend were all from Newtown Township: A couple married 41 years and a woman who was a favorite at her local gym.

Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck released the names of the five flood victims Monday.

They are Katie Seley of Charleston, S.C.; Susan Barnhart of Titusville, N.J.; and Enzo and Linda DePiero, and Yuko Love of Newtown Township.

Here's what we know about them:

Susan Barnhart, 53, Titusville, N.J.

The Upper Makefield Township Police Department, which has led the rescue and recovery efforts since the flash flood in the township, knew Barnhart personally. She worked in the Washington Crossing Post Office.

Her neighbor of 10 years, Sarah Orfe, created a GoFundMe page to help raise donations to care for Barnhart's 80-year-old mother Pat, a job that Barnhart did herself. More than $20,000 has been raised so far.

"Susan was an incredibly friendly, kind, and generous person, and a lover of animals," Orfe said.

She also told Patch how Barnhart had her dog with her that fateful day —and that the dog miraculously survived.

"Someone found him wandering (we assume towards home) in Washington Crossing Sunday afternoon, collar and leash still on, and brought him home," she told Patch. "Susan loved that dog so dearly. It's so amazing that he survived."

Barnhart's friend, Sheila Adamczyk, told NBC10 Philadelphia that Susan was a quiet woman with a sense of humor.

"That was what's so important about her," Adamczyk said. "She kind of touched everybody. Everybody loved her. Anybody that brought their things to her, they loved her."

Katheryn “Katie” Seley, 32, Charleston, S.C.

Katie Seley, her fiance Jim, her mother, and their three children were visiting family in Bucks County when their vehicle got trapped in the flash flooding.

James grabbed their 4-year-old son Jack and was able to flee to safety and Katie's mother also survived the flood.

Katie's body was recovered Saturday night and her two children —2-year-old Mattie and 9-month-old Conrad Sheils —remain missing.

Katie was one of seven siblings who are spread out across the country. She hailed from Brackney, PA, in Susquehanna County, according to the Bucks County Courier Times. She and Sheils were together since at least 2017.

Seley worked as a self-employed nanny, according to her Linkedin profile. She studied baking and pastry at the Trident Technical School in North Charleston.

A cousin described Seley as “spunky, fun-loving, captivating and vibrant,” in a Facebook post after her death.

Yuko Love, 64, of Newtown Township

After state Sen. Steve Santarsiero announced on Facebook the death of three Newtown Township residents, Love's friend commented.

"RIP Yuko. I will always cherish the memories I have of our fun lunches and gym workouts," Toni Gatto Keller commented. "May the angels carry you home.

Love's husband Dave has been hospitalized with injuries from the flood.

Friends of Love paid tribute to her through a special dance at the Newtown Athletic Club, where she had been a member since 2017, according to NBC10 Philadelphia.

On Tuesday, other members of the athletic club paid tribute to Love by wearing “Hello Kitty” T-shirts and dancing in her honor.

“This is where Yuko came every day. Sometimes she came twice a day. And she loved the classes here,” Linda Mitchell, a Newtown Athletic Club member, told NBC10. “And she loved the people. More than anything. And we loved her. I mean, everybody knew her. There’s more than 10,000 people that come here. Everybody knew her.”

Three times a week, Love would take a Zumba class taught by her friend Maria Egan, who said Love was always eager to get up on stage and use her positive energy to help others.

“She was the sweetest person, really supportive of everyone. She was engaging and funny and made every class so much fun,” Egan told the Bucks County Courier Times.

Enzo, 78, and Linda DePiero, 74, of Newtown Township

They had recently celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary.

Their son, Zack DePiero, said his parents were returning from a Titusville, N.J. diner when they got swept away in the flash flooding.

DePiero told the Bucks County Courier Times that he takes great comfort in knowing that they shared their last meal at their favorite restaurant and probably ate tomato pie and fish tacos.

His parents' home on Tall Oaks Road, an unpaved gravel laneway sheltered by thick woods, was the family's dream home born of his father’s imagination. His 78-year-old father, a retired civil engineer for the New Jersey Department of Fish and Gaming, was its architect.

Enzo DePiero was born in the northern Italy town of Cordenons. Linda DePiero, 74, grew up in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia raised by her father and grandmother.

The couple met in Margate at the Jersey shore, probably in a bar. Their son said the huge fans of the Rolling Stones met when the song “Honkytonk Woman,” was playing.

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(Photo Courtesy of Sarah Orfe) Susan Barnhart of Titusville, N.J. was one of five victims who died in the flash flood Saturday in Upper Makefield Township.