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Anthrax Attacks Struck All Walks Of Life

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The Associated Press

The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 2, 2008

Five people died as a result of the anthrax mailings in 2001, which came soon after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Another 17 people were sickened with respiratory and skin infections.

The victims came from different walks of life. Here is a look at some of the victims:

•The first to die was Robert Stevens, 63, a photo editor at the Sun, a supermarket tabloid published in Boca Raton.

•Thomas Morris Jr., 55, and 47-year-old Joseph Curseen worked together at a Washington postal facility that was a hub for sorting the capital's mail. They both died.

•Anthrax killed Kathy Nguyen, 61, who had emigrated from Vietnam, lived in the Bronx and worked in a stock room at Manhattan Eye Ear & Throat Hospital, a Children's Hearing Institute.

•The last to die was Ottilie Lundgren, 94, who lived in Oxford, Conn. Her death underscored how random the attacks were, reaching an elderly woman in an isolated town. Lundgren had lived through the tumultuous 20th century, through world wars and the Great Depression, only to lose her life at the start of a new century marked by a very different kind of threat.

The Associated Press

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