Thirty of the nearly 3,000 people who died from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were from Pennsylvania, according to a report in the Harrisburg Patriot-News.

West Chester resident George Eric Smith, 38, a senior business analyst for SunGard Asset Management Systems/Global Plus in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, was among the victims.

His obituary in the New York Times said that he would stay in a corporate apartment during the week and spend his weekends at home with his grandmother, who raised him.

The other Pennsylvanians who died that day in New York City, Washington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania are:

• Michael Andrew Bane, 33, Yardley
• Jasper Baxter, 45, Philadelphia
• James Patrick Berger, 44, Lower Makefield
• Harry Blanding Jr., 38, Blakeslee
• Kevin L. Bowser, 45, Philadelphia
• Joseph Calandrillo, 49, Hawley
• Peter A. Chirchirillo, 47, Langhorne
• Christopher Robert Clarke, 34, Philadelphia
• Jeffrey Coale, 31, Souderton
• Joseph W. Flounders, 46, East Stroudsburg
• Donald G. Havlish Jr., 53, Yardley
• Michael R. Horrocks, 38, Glen Mills
• Donald W. Jones, 43, Fairless Hills
• Lawrence Donald Kim, 31, Blue Bell
• George Lopez, 40, Stroudsburg
• Joseph Lostrangio, 48, Langhorne
• Walter Arthur McNeil, 53, East Stroudsburg
• Mary Melendez, 44, Stroudsburg
• Alan H. Merdinger, 47, Allentown
• Louis J. Nacke, 42, New Hope
• Timothy F. O’Sullivan, 68, Albrightsville
• Jonas Martin Panik, 26, Mingoville
• Laura Marie Ragonese-Snik, 41, Bangor
• Efrain Franco Romero Sr., 57, Hazleton
• Victor J. Saracini, 51, Lower Makefield Township
• Larry John Senko, 34, Yardley
• Johanna Sigmund, 25, Syndmoor
• William R. Steiner, 56, New Hope
• Sandra Wright, 57, Langhorne

Read more about the victims in the Harrisburg Patriot-News by clicking here.
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