Daniel M. Coffey & Jason M.
Coffey: Like Father, Like Son
On
Sept. 11, Daniel M. Coffey and his son Jason M. Coffey
planned to meet for lunch at the World Trade Center,
where they both worked for subsidiaries of Marsh &
McLennan. Daniel Coffey, 54, needed to have his wedding
ring enlarged after 30 years of marriage. Jason Coffey,
25, was going along to pick out a surprise engagement
ring for his fiancee, Colleen McDonald.
Daniel Coffey, a senior vice president at Guy
Carpenter & Company, worked on the 94th floor of One
World Trade. Jason, a senior accountant at Marsh Inc.,
was on the 98th floor.
Daniel Coffey was the son and grandson of an only
child and part of a family that has lived for generations
in Newburgh, N.Y.
He and his wife, Francis, broke the mold with three
sons, Daniel, Jason and Kevin. Daniel Coffey met his wife
when she was trying to fix him up with her friend.
One of his gifts was gab. "Dad could talk to virtually
anyone and get anything he wanted out of them," said his
son Daniel. With his wife, the elder Coffey was fixing up
the house in Newburgh. "My mother is very particular
about what she wants done, and my father was particular
in how he did it," young Daniel said.
Jason Coffey was a big guy who loved to play rugby.
(His mother did not want him to play football. Too
dangerous.) He was also always ready to go out, including
to a local bar, Pineapple Larry's.
But now he was settling down. He was in the process of
buying his grandparent's house in Newburgh and he and Ms.
McDonald were going to fix it up, just like his father
and mother did to their house. Jason Coffey and Ms.
McDonald had planned to get married Dec. 7, 2002.
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