Known by Her Nickname
Elizabeth C. Logler
She was always Beth. Even when business associates first met her, Elizabeth C. Logler was Beth.
Ms. Logler, 31, was vice president of investor relations at eSpeed , a division of Cantor Fitzgerald. She was bright, ambitious and, many of her friends said, pretty enough to be a model, though she never wanted that. She was a runner, a skier and a swimmer, "competitive but in a soft kind of way," said her mother, Claire. In high school she ran cross- country, competing against the clock and against herself.
Ms. Logler was engaged to be married, with a wedding planned for Dec. 30, 2001. She and her fiancé, Doug Cleary, worked nonstop to furnish a co-op at Tudor City in Manhattan with family heirlooms from her grandparents.
"Beth had a great relationship with her grandfather," Mr. Cleary said. They had formed what by all accounts was a club of kindred spirits, a pairing of souls. Here's a typical encounter between Ms. Logler and her grandfather James Byrnes, whom she called Pop:
She drives up to his home in Yonkers in her hunter green Saab with the sunroof open. Mr. Byrnes, 87, in Irish cap and tweed jacket, hops in and immediately reaches for the loudest, wildest music he can find on the radio. Off they zoom, laughter pouring out of the open hatch.
"Oh, the two were devils together," Mrs. Logler said. "Both ready to go, ready to have a lot of fun."
Mr. Byrnes, 87, died on Sept. 11, 2000.
Read an update on the family of Elizabeth C. Logler from 2011.
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