As a seasoned housekeeper, Lucy took immense pride in polishing the brass and vacuuming the much-trod carpets of Windows on the World. She
always insisted that her rooms be as perfect as the view. And although
she was scheduled to come to work at 9am on September 11, 2001, she went in
early as usual. In fact she should not have gone in at all, she had insisted on working
the week before despite a bout of the flu, and the previous Thursday
her boss had demanded she go home, telling her, "Don't come back until
you're ready."
But, Lucy liked to be out there working, she never liked to sit around at home.
And so, on the morning of the terrorist attacks, she took the A train
from Fulton Street as she always did, and arrived well before the first
plane struck the building.
Her son recalled how hard she had worked all her life, after coming to the US in 1986 from Barbados. Her family still cannot quite believe she is gone.
