Memorial Held for Dallas Terror Victim Michael Tinley Dallas County TX & Pottawattamie County IA 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 Terror Victim from Dallas Meanwhile, a memorial service is scheduled for next week in Iowa for a 56-year old Dallas man who was confirmed Saturday as among the dead. Michael Tinley, a vice president in the same company Storey worked for, was at a meeting on the 100th floor of the World Trade Center when it was struck by American Airlines Flight 11. His brother, Emmet Tinley, told the Dallas Morning News that his brother was able to call his sister from his office moments before the jetliner slammed into the building. Michael Tinley was the second oldest of eight children, his brother said. Born in Council Bluff Iowa, he lived in Dallas but often spend weekends in New York. He graduated from Creighton Prep, a Jesuit school in Omaha Nebraska in 1963 before earning a bachelor's degree from Creighton University. He worked in the insurance business for 30 years in southern California before moving to Dallas in 1999 after being named a vice president of construction services with Marsh USA, a unit of Marsh & McLennan. A memorial service will be held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where much of the Tinley family lives, church officials said. Michael Tinley is survived by two daughters, 26-year old Jenna Tinley and 29-year old Lisa Tinley, both of Los Angeles; his father, Emmet Tinley II of Omaha, brother Chris Tinley of Council Bluffs; and four sister, Jeannie Gilmore of Omaha, Kathy Payne of Council Bluffs, Mary Ann Smith of Valley,NE, and Suzanne Tinley of New York. Emmet Tinley said his brother, a divorced father of two met up with his daughters in New York during the Labor Day weekend to go sightseeing. "His real devotion was to his two girls," he said. "They spent a lot of time together."