Memorial Held for Houston Terror Victim Jimmy Nevill Storey Memorial Held for Dallas Terror Victim Michael Tinley Texas Counties: Harris, Dallas, Red River Transcribed by: Gene Phillips 26 Sep 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Houston Chronicle Memorial Held for Houston Terror Victim Businessman Storey was on 99th floor of World Trade Center when planes struck A private memorial service was held Saturday for Jimmy Nevill Storey, a Houston businessman who was on the 99th floor of the World Trade Center when hijackers crashed airplanes into the twin towers. Storey, 58, was a senior vice president in the Houston office of Marsh Inc, a risk and insurance firm that is an operating unit of Marsh & McLennan Cos. He was in New York for a business meeting when the attacks occurred. A spokesman for the New York company, which had 1,700 employees at the World Trade Center, said Thursday that about 600 of the workers were unaccounted for. He warned that its process of locating employees is inexact. Storey's family held the service at First United Methodist Church in Katy, which was arranged by Schmidt Funeral Home, said Matthew Caster, the home's director. "The longer it went on and the information we got, we thought it was time to move on," Storey's brother, Tim Storey, told the Bryan-College Station Eagle. The family realized late last week that the chances were slim that Jimmy Storey would be rescued from the rubble of the collapsed towers, his mother, Iva Dell DeStefano, told the newspaper. The family is not making any public statements about Jimmy Storey at this time, said his daughter Tracey Storey. She confirmed that her father was a graduate of Texas A&M University and a member of the Corps of Cadets. DeStefano told the Eagle that her family moved to Bryan in 1961 after her husband's death. She called Jimmy the family patriarch. "He was kind of thrown from boy to man real fast, but he handled it well, "DeStefano told the newspaper. "He was a very devoted son, a very, very good father to his children." His loss will "leave a big hole in this family," she said. Along with his brother Tim, daughter Tracey and mother Iva Dell DeStefano, Jimmy Storey is survived by his wife, Pamela, two other children, Geof Storey and Cynthia Morrow; sister Kaye Storey; and four grandchildren.