1st Dog, Sparky
Mom, Patricia and Patrick Nihill family friend
Patricia with her cousin Maryanne's children, Danielle and Allison
Taken In Ireland Mom and Patricia
Patricia and Mom taken in Staten Island
Bowling Team, taken in Brooklyn and this is her bowling team. Patricia is 2nd on the left
Patricia is receiving degree from the Building Owners and Managers Institute International
Taken in NYC
Christmas in cousin Maryanne's house in Brooklyn
Patricia, Michael and Tom (both brothers)
Christmas in cousin Maryanne's house in Brooklyn
Taken in Brooklyn NY
Michael, Helene, Tom, Patricia and Mom sitting
Wedding, Patricia's friend Maureen Nihill and Patricia
Patricia and Cousin Maryanne
Patricia and 1st Boyfriend Chris King
Brooklyn
Ziggy who was Patricia's 2nd dog who was put down 3 months before 9/11/2001
High School Graduation from Fort Hamilton HS
Taken in Brooklyn and this is the only photo of Patricia's Dad
Michael, Tom, Patricia, Frances(Mom) and Thomas (Dad)
Halloween in Brooklyn
High School Graduation Photo, Patricia, Tom and Mom
Patricia and cousin Maryanne on a cruise
Angels Circle WTC Memorial
Marsh & McLennan September 11th Memorial
Patricia A. Kuras Way
Staten Island 9/11 Postcards Memorial
Wings of a Monument, Memories Soar
Queen Elizabeth II September 11 Memorial Garden
Conseleya 9/11 Memorial
Dewitt 9/11 Memorial
Montclair State University 9/11 Memorial
Marsh Memorial Dedication
Patricia Anne Kuras, 41, A Marsh & McLennan Manager
Patricia A. Kuras 9/11 Memorial Way
Marsh & McLennan Companies Memorial Tribute
You were born on Tuesday, September 30, 1958. The weather was fair with the temperature in the mid-60's. A fine New York autumn day. The headlines in The New York Times that day spoke about the problems of school integration. Even then our country was in turmoil. As far as I know the daily newspapers made no mention of your arrival in our world. That night on TV we watched such things as Wyatt Earp and the Arthur Godfrey Show.
You were the youngest of three children born to Mom & Dad and you were instantly Daddy's little girl. Michael and I were concerned that your arrival might mean fewer Christmas presents for us. But when we found out that you were a girl we were relieved. After all, we would have no interest in your dolls and you would have no interest in our toy soldiers.
In 1963 we moved from our little apartment on 51st Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn to a nice house on 70th Street in Bay Ridge. There is where you began to grow into the remarkable individual we have come here to honor today.
You attended St. Ephrem's Grammar School and graduated, like most of us in the middle of your class. You never sought the top, nor would you settle for the bottom of the academic ladder. After St. Ephrem's it was on to Fort Hamilton High School. There again you maintained the same standards that you achieved in grammar school.
New York Times Portraits of Grief
"My brother and I try to fill the gap she left behind, but it's just not the same," Tom Kuras said of his sister, Patricia Kuras, a 43-year-old facilities manager for Marsh & McLennan. "She always put herself second, so that the family's needs came first."
So no one was surprised by what happened five years ago when Ms. Kuras's mother had a stroke. Without being asked, she up and sold her beloved little red Nissan sports car and the quaint house in Brooklyn that she had just remodeled. In the Grant City section of Staten Island, Ms. Kuras bought a smaller home to share with her mother. She took the basement while her mother and a live-in nurse occupied the rest of the house.
"She gave so much of herself," Mr. Kuras said of his younger sister. "She lived for my mother."
Ms. Kuras's body has yet to be recovered. But in January, searchers delivered a small bit of closure to her family: her mother's insurance cards. She carried them everywhere.
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