Maria Isabel Ramirez

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February 21, 2020

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We love you and we are missing you on this seventh anniversary. We gathered by your plot and later got together for lunch. This is your family everyone here miss you so much. Love you forever and a day.

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February 21, 2020

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My beautiful daughter, Maria, the years that have gone by have not lessen the pain of losing you. I miss you so much. Rest in peace.

Posted by Elsie Rosado

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Age:
25
Place of Residence:
Brooklyn, NY
Location on 9/11:
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Maria Isabel Ramirez
Occupation:
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services | Executive Secretary
Dedicated Memorial Sites:
Queen Elizabeth II September 11 Memorial Garden
Conseleya 9/11 Memorial
Dewitt 9/11 Memorial
Montclair State University 9/11 Memorial
East Newark 9/11 Memorial
Fair Haven 9/11 Memorial
Freehold Township 9/11 Living Memorial Tree Grove
Crescent Beach Park - Flagpole/Memorial for 9/11 Victims
Garrison Elementary School American Patriot Garden
Keansburg Beach Front Memorial
Personal Memorial Website:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/1726.html
Reflections:
The New York Times Portraits of Grief
Biography:

As a child, Maria Isabel Ramirez was always bringing home stray cats and dogs, but could never keep them because of her mother's allergies. When Ms. Ramirez got her own apartment five years ago, on 96th Street in Canarsie, one of the first things she did was to go to a kennel and pick out a dog. She named him Mozart. He was black and brown ‹ the vet called him brindled ‹ and he was part German shepherd and part pit bull.

"She brought him home on her palm, he was so tiny," said her mother, Elsie Cintron. "She treated him like a little baby. She used to feed him well. He was a fat little dog."

Her mother said that Ms. Ramirez often asked what would happen to Mozart if anything happened to her. "I used to say, 'I don't know, Maria. I'm allergic. But don't worry about Mozart. He will be fine.' "

And he is. Ms. Ramirez, 25, died in the elevator at 90 West Street, where she worked for Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, when the building was damaged by falling debris from the World Trade Center. Mozart, now 82 pounds, is in Orlando, Florida, with Maria's mother. "I have to keep the dog," Ms. Cintron said. "Even though I am very allergic to it, I have grown used to it. It's something I have to do for her."

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 10, 2001