kathy gaarde was 62-years-old. she was a huge fan of the washington capitals hockey team. she loved hall and oat, went to the bee gee, counted bluebirds for the local wildlife refugee. she and douglas her husband were planning their retirement. doug had already retired. kathy was a few months away from retiring and planning the rest of their life together. the security guard was stroo-years-old, michael ridgell served three years as a security contractor in iraq. his daughter, megan, echos what jessica gaarde said. i don t want people to remember him as a victim. because he never was in his life. he never will be. he s strong. i want him to be known as a dad as both a victim of a shooting. because he was a great dad for all of us. michael arnold was a graduate of a navy academy, an avid
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neighbors of 73-year-old john roger johnson say he always had a smile on his face. mary francis knight was 51 she was an information technology contractor who taught at a local community college. arthur daniels worked as a handyman at the navy yard for 17 years. gerald l. read, 57, worked in managing security risks at the nfl he served during the korean, iraq and afghanistan wars. frank kohler was a senior systems engineer according to the new york times. he served his community of lexington park, maryland as a form president of the rotary club. the paper also reports 61-year-old vishnu pandit was a marine engineer and naval architect who dedicated 30 years of his life to the navy. kathy gaarde, 62, had been working in washington for 38 years. richard michael ridgell spent 17 years with the maryland state
people who innocently went to work yesterday morning never to return again to their families. in their grave today, douglas gaarde and his daughter spoke to us about kathy. what do you want people to know about kathy? i guess what i want them to know most about her what a caring person she was, particularly how she cared about her family. as i mentioned, we took care or she took care of her mother who s lived with us for ten years. she moved here when she was about 85, lived here until she was 94. and that s a lot to take on when you re a full-time mom and a full-time worker. and she did a great job of that in addition to raising our two kids. which of course is jessica here. and she loved nature. she loved animals? she loved animals. we ve got them tied up. we ve got two dogs and two cats. and that s actually down from the number we used to have. you used to have more than that? yeah. quite a menagerie.
down there and meet kathy there, hopefully. and i got down there, and it was probable about that time. i guess it was about 7:00 or so. and they were down to the last there was about maybe four or five series of buses still coming through. but just the later it got, the more desperate i got. and it wasn t until later that i d gotten a call from one of my wife s co-workers who said that she had talked to some of her co-workers and that they had seen kathy was one of the ones who was hit. one of the co-workers actually saw her. yeah. saw that she was one of the ones who had been hit. and at that point i kind of said, look, this is crap. you guys you got to tell me what s going on. it was at that point that they went back to further behind the gates of the stadium there and came back out. and they said yes, she was one of the ones. that was it. how do you how do you deal