The two had talked about getting married but finally decided to give the baby up for adoption. He worked two jobs to pay for medical bills, accompanied his girlfriend to all her doctor appointments, attended birthing classes and was present when the child was born.
He’d had a girlfriend in college who had gotten pregnant, he said. Attentive and genuine.”īut about six weeks into their relationship, Tom said he had something to tell her. “I liked his sense of humor, intellect and ability to express himself verbally,” Deena says. On the morning after their third date, Deena called her mother to say she was going to marry Tom. She was a Delta Air Lines flight attendant, and he was a regional sales manager. He and his wife, Deena, had three daughters, ages 3 to 5.ĭeena was one of the few people who knew Tom had an older daughter, too.ĭeena and Tom met in Atlanta in July 1989 during an afternoon happy hour. He lived in the Bay Area of Northern California and was returning home from a business trip in New York when he boarded Flight 93. He grew up in Bloomington, earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota and a master’s from Pepperdine University.
Tom Burnett’s name and details of his life became well known, especially to Minnesotans: The story of Flight 93 was reported and repeated hundreds of times after 9/11. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Sunday, Sept. ‘I JUST DIDN’T UNDERSTAND’ A visitor looks at the Wall of Names before a ceremony commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Sept. “I think one of my parents is dead,” Mills recalls Mariah saying. They had adopted her as an infant, and she was their only child.Ĭathy Mills hurried upstairs and found Mariah in bed, curled in a fetal position, wrapped in blankets and crying. Cathy Mills and her husband, Walter “Buzz” Mills, enjoyed a close relationship with their daughter.
Mariah’s unusual silence troubled her mother.
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