Georgine Rose Corrigan

Georgine Rose Corrigan

Quick Facts

Significance:

Flight 93 Passenger

Date of Birth:

04/24/1946

Date of Death:

09/11/2001

Age: 55
Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii
Occupation: Antiques and collectables dealer
Reason for travel: Returning from visit with brother and buying trip for business

Georgine Rose Corrigan, a gregarious, optimistic Ohio native, had lived in Hawaii since 1976 when she and her infant daughter re-located and made the island their home. Corrigan worked at dozens of different jobs, many relying on her artistic talent. She became a well-known antiques and collectables dealer, designed jewelry, and developed a line of Christmas ornaments decorated with tropical flowers. Family and friends remember her as a doting grandmother who was “crazy about roses,” a nod to her middle name. On September 11, Corrigan was on her way home from an east coast buying trip and a visit with her brother in New Jersey. She was survived by a daughter.

A bright, funny, strong, industrious [...] person that would give you the shirt off her back. She was generous almost to a fault, and whether she could afford it or not. She was a wonderful human being who had a lot to deal with in, in the course of her life, but it never got her down. She just kept right on going. And I think that’s the best quality of all. She just never gave up.^[1] 

- Shere Lichtenwald, longtime friend

Tributes left by friends in honor of Georgine Rose Corrigan in September 2001. Detailed image (left) of framed picture. NPS/FLNI 9038, 9029.

So it is very interesting that she moved that far away and yet it was still part of the States. It was beautiful there. She loved it. She became a true Hawaiian. She developed many friendships. Everyone who knew her - there wasn’t anyone who could say a bad word about her on any island, of any of the islands. She would drop everything to help you regardless of what kind of problem she was solving or was into. She’d help you first, simple as that. ^[2]

- Kevin Marisay, brother

Georgine Corrigan (left) with her family. NPS/FLNI-00870

"My brother, in his infinite wisdom, had come across a pool table while we were growing up - in a chicken coop. We had it completely, we, he had it completely restored, and that was the beginning of the end of my sister not playing pool. She could run the table on anyone and had done so many times. So when she took the course at Bowling Green University, after about three shots the teacher walked over to the phone, picked up, called the dean and said, “I have a problem. I have a student who is ten times better than me. Can she teach the course?” And she was allowed to teach billiards to everyone in the school at the time." ^[3]  - Kevin Marisay, brother

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Footnotes

[1] Flight 93 National Memorial Oral History Collection/OH 850
[2] Flight 93 National Memorial Oral History Collection/OH 491
[3] ibid