Funds Collected for Families After Buffalo Crash

Names of victims released

Local institutions and businesses are beginning to collect donations for the families of passengers killed in the crash of a commuter flight near Buffalo.

Senior Pastor Karl Eastlack at Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church is taking donations in honor of one of the victims who attended church there, but they will be distributed to all families.


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The post office in Clarence is accepting condolences and gifts for the Wielinski family, whose home was crushed by the plane.

Homeowner Doug Wielinski was killed.

All 49 people aboard Continental Flight 3407 also died.

Meanwhile, Spot Coffee in Buffalo is donating all the money it collects from sales between noon and 2 p.m. for two Saturdays to any memorial fund that might be set up.

Victims of Commuter Plane Crash

The names of those killed in crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 have been provided by employers, relatives or friends. Read brief profiles of some of the victims here.

  • Capt. Marvin Renslow, pilot, of Lutz, Fla.
  • Rebecca Shaw, first officer, of Maple Valley, Wash.
  • Matilda Quintero, flight attendant.
  • Donna Prisco, flight attendant.
  • Capt. Joseph Zuffoletto, off-duty crew member
  • Alison Des Forges, of Buffalo, considered one of the world's leading experts on the genocide in Rwanda.
  • Beverly Eckert, of Stamford, Conn., whose husband died in the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
  • David Borner, of Pendleton, N.Y., worked for Kraft Foods.
  • Bethany Kushner, of Angola, N.Y., college student.
  • Ron Gonzalez, of New Brunswick, N.J., director of a youth services program.
  • Ellyce Kausner, student at Florida Coastal School of Law.
  • Nicole Korczykowski, native of Eden, N.Y.
  • Maddy Loftus, of Parsippany, N.J., headed to Buffalo for weekend reunion of women hockey players.
  • Coleman Mellett, guitarist in jazz musician Chuck Mangione's band.
  • Lorin Maurer, who worked raising money for Princeton University's athletics department.
  • Don McDonald, of Fort Erie, Ontario, technical manager at Pharmetics Inc.
  • Dawn Mossop, of Bloomfield, N.J., an executive secretary at Schering-Plough and Donald Mossop's wife.
  • Donald Mossop, of Bloomfield, N.J., a technician for Xerox and Dawn Mossop's husband.
  • Shawn Mossop, of Bloomfield, N.J., Donald and Dawn Mossop's 12-year-old son.
  • Gerry Niewood, saxophonist and member of jazz musician Chuck Mangione's band.
  • Mary Pettys, of West Seneca, N.Y. She was heading home after a business trip for her job as a software director for an insurance firm.
  • Ferris Reid, of Bloomfield, N.J., Dawn Mossop's sister.
  • Jean Srnecz, of Clinton, N.J., senior vice president of merchandising at Charlotte, N.C.-based Baker and Taylor.
  • Susan Wehle, of Amherst, N.Y., cantor at Temple Beth Am in Williamsville.
  • Clay Yarber, of Riverside, Calif., member of several Tampa Bay, Fla.-area bands over the past several decades.
  • Four employees from the Amherst office of Northrup Grumman. The defense contractor declined to name the employees.
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