COLLEEN BARKOW: Building a Dream
House
Colleen
Barkow's job at Cantor Fitzgerald was to help oversee the
building of things Ð including, most recently, the
firm's cafeteria. "She was very proud of that," said her
father, Thomas Meehan.
But over the past several months, she was using her
talents to help oversee the building of something that
mattered much more to her: a new home, for her and her
husband, Daniel Barkow, in a virtual forest of a plot in
the Poconos.
The couple were so proud of their project that they
even started a Web site so friends and family could watch
it rise. They were going to brave the two-hour-plus trips
to work because they loved the place so much. They were
supposed to move in on Oct. 1.
"I have an empty house now that she designed and built
and she'll neverget to live in it," Mr. Barkow said.
Dates have become very important for him. He and his
wife, 26, were married on Sept. 17, 2000. Rescue workers
recovered Ms. Barkow's body on Sept. 17.
The only recent consolation for him has been that his
wife's rings --her engagement ring, wedding ring and the
diamond ring he had just given her for their upcoming
anniversary-- were found and returned to him.
Mr. Meehan said that his son-in-law had the rings
repaired and now wears them on a chain around his
neck.
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