
Utah’s Heartbreak on 9/11: The Untold Stories of 3 Local Victims
Mary Alice Wahlstrom & Carolyn Mayer Beug:
Mary and her daughter Carolyn were aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which was tragically hijacked and flown into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001. It was the first of four planes to be hijacked that day. Mary, a resident of Kaysville, Utah, had traveled to the East Coast to help Carolyn's twins settle into school at the Rhode Island School of Design. The two were on their way from Boston to Los Angeles. Mary was 78 years old, and Carolyn was 48.
Despite her reluctance to travel due to her husband Norman's recent heart attack, Mary made the trip to support her daughter. Norman believed Mary could have lived another 25 years, stating, "I have no doubt about it." Mary disliked flying, and the night before the attacks, she told her family, "I'll never do this again. I'll come home, and I'll never do this again." Mary was the proud mother of five, grandmother of 16, and had even achieved two holes-in-one on the golf course. Her husband, Norman, passed away in 2006 at the age of 88.
Carolyn, on the other hand, was a prominent figure in the music industry. She produced Van Halen's "Right Now" music video, which won the MTV Video Music Award for "Best Video" in 1992. A mother of three—Lauren, Lindsey, and Nicholas—Carolyn had retired from her music career and was working on a children's book about Noah's Ark, told from the perspective of Noah's wife.
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