Video: Memorial to Brentwood's Touri Bolourchi, Killed on 9/11, Largely Unknown

The beloved Brentwood grandmother, a retired nurse, was on her way home from a family visit in Boston when terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 and crashed it into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Years later, her daughter Neda placed a memorial to Touri Bolourchi on the median at San Vicente and Gorham.

Monday afternoon, it was business as usual at the corner. Scores of pedestrians walked by the boulder but few paid attention to the plaque.

Here's the inscription from the right panel:

Dedicated to the memory of Touri Bolurchi, an Iranian-born Moslem woman, who was killed on September 11, 2001 aboard United Flight 175 when it crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center. Touri was a dedicated nurse, devoted wife, a loving mother and grandmother who touched the lives of so many people with her love. She was an American citizen and Brentwood resident who was fluent in six languages and loved to read and garden. She was an angel in the form of a mother whose wisdom, strength, faith and beauty shall forvever live in the hearts of her family and those who knew her.

We just wanted more time to spend with you.

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Coming soon: Interview with Neda Bolourchi.

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