Melissa Marie Harrington (aka Melissa Harrington Hughes) was 31 years old and from San Francisco, California.
On September 11, 2001, Melissa was in New York for one day attending a financial conference for Risk Waters Group from Slam Dunk Networks Inc. Lisa was on the 101st floor in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Melissa made a tearful call to her husband, Sean Hughes in San Francisco, but missed him as he was asleep. The full message she left said, "Sean it's me, I just wanted to let you know I love you and I'm stuck in this building in New York. A plane hit the building or a bomb went off, they don't know. But there's lots of smoke, and I just wanted you to know I love you always."
West Springfield Remembers: A monument on the town common remembers the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including West Springfield native Melissa Marie Harrington.
A few hundred people commemorated the 10th anniversary of the attacks with a solemn ceremony on the Park Street Common on Sunday morning, its focal point a monument to native Melissa Harrington Hughes.
The ceremony featured honor guards from the police and fire departments, music by the West Springfield High School and middle school bands, speeches, remembrances and poems about Harrington-Hughes and the other 3,000 people killed that day 10 years ago, which includes more than 20 from Western Massachusetts.
