9/11 Victim, A Neshaminy High Graduate, Remembered

LANGHORNE, PA — The Neshaminy School District is remembering a high school graduate on the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on America on Thursday.

The school district said that Lorraine Bay was a 1961 Neshaminy High School graduate and flight attendant with 37 years of service to United Airlines.

Bay lost her life while working on Flight 93 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

She was among the crew and passengers who heroically kept the hijacked plane from reaching its intended target in Washington, D.C., and crashing into a field in Shanksville.

Bucks County paid its respects on Patriots Day with several ceremonies, including one at the Garden of Reflection in Lower Makefield Township.

Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon Washington, D.C., and in the skies above western Pennsylvania.

Eighteen residents from Bucks County — including nine from Lower Makefield Township — were among those killed during the attacks, representing the highest number of casualties of any municipality in Pennsylvania.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Bay left the home she shared with her husband of 22 years to head to work.

She stopped at the post office to send two greeting cards to friends, then headed to Newark International Airport to board United Airlines Flight 93, bound for San Francisco, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum said on its website in tribute to Bay.

Bay’s flight attendant’s wings, with awarded diamonds that represent the length of her service with United Airlines, are on display currently in the Museum's “In Memoriam” gallery, where visitors can learn more about her life and career through the touchscreen tables.

Read more about Bay on the museum's website