Hilda-Marcin-Obituary

Hilda Marcin

Budd Lake, New Jersey

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Budd Lake, New Jersey

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It was supposed to be Hilda Marcin's flight to a new life. As a child, she and her parents had escaped Germany when the first whiffs of Nazism were spreading. Marcin, 79, had lived in New Jersey ever since. But on Sept. 11, aboard United Airlines Flight 93, she was leaving New Jersey for good, headed to San Francisco to move in with her daughter. The airplane crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Marcin, of Budd Lake, N.J., was a special-education aide at Tinc Road School in nearby Mt. Olive but had resigned in June to move, said her daughter, Carole O'Hare. Marcin's father, a member of the German circus in 1929, had decided to leave Germany after a Jewish woman who worked for the family was taken away by Nazi soldiers, O'Hare said. In 1943, Marcin married her husband, Edward, a police officer in Irvington, N.J. He died in 1979. "My mom was the youngest 79-year-old you'd ever met," O'Hare said, noting that her mother loved to dance and would do cartwheels by the pool at the age of 70. O'Hare and others in her family flew to Pennsylvania after the crash. "It was very sad, but it was also therapeutic," O'Hare said. "We got some soil from the site and saw what a peaceful place it was where the plane crashed. It helped."

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It has been 21 years. I remember Hilda , as she was a customer in the ShopRite store that I worked in , in Netcong , New Jersey. such a sweet lady.

Here it is 19 years later...NEVER FORGOTTEN....my thoughts and prayers are with your family always.

RIP my friend, thou it's been 19 years ago, it still just like yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are always with you and your family and friends. Lest We Need Forget!

You will never be forgotten .....Every year I am reminded of that horrific day where your new journey ended abruptly.....I send thoughts and prayers to you and your family always!

Never Forgotten!

My thoughts are always with this sweet innocent lady and her family ....what a horrible tragedy we must never forget ...I don't know Hilda personally but read about her and it so touched me ...first off, she looks like the sweetest person one could ever meet and she reminded me that could have been anyone..my thoughts and prayers to the Marcin family and I feel like Hilda will always be remembered for the wonderful person she was!

My grandfathers name was John marcin and I felt a connection to hilda for that reason. I read her story on line years ago.
I will add hilda to my daily rosary.