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Kathleen Faragher: 'Good People'

 

At this year's Gender Blender co-ed Frisbee tournament in Fergus, Ontario, in June, a special award was given for the first time. It is called the Kit Faragher Spirit Award, and it was given to the team that most embodied the intensity of spirit of Ms. Faragher, 33, a computer programmer from Denver who worked for Janus Capital Corporation and was attending a training program at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

Ms. Faragher's team had participated in but not won Gender Blender competitions in 2000 and 2001. But Mark Evans, a tournament organizer, said that Ms. Faragher had impressed everyone with her verve and energy.

Her sister Beth Faragher said that people liked being with Kit. "She was just a fun person to be around," Ms. Faragher said. "You know how you sometimes hear someone say that somebody was `good people'? That was Kit."

Another sister, Mary Waterman, said that Kit was governed by an unebbing generosity of spirit.

Once, several years ago, Kit, Mary and Beth went for a hike with the family, including two children, and got terribly lost. They stumbled back to camp six hours later, but it was too dark to cook the s'mores that Ms. Faragher had promised her nieces. The next morning, Mrs. Waterman said, as the children rubbed the sleep from their eyes, their Aunt Kit toasted marshmallows and served s'mores for breakfast.

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From "Profiles in Grief" of The New York Times