David Agnes: 'Just a Good
Man'
Carmen
Agnes sat in her home in Flushing, Queens, wondering what
to say about her son, David. "I don't want to make him a
saint," she said. "He was just a good man."
His photograph sat on her desk, and she described it.
He wore a blue shirt and a mustache and stared straight
ahead with a half-smile. The photograph, though, did not
speak of his good nature, the devotion he showed to his
daughter, Adrienne, 24, the intimate friendship he had
with his sister Leslie, 43, the days on end that he spent
at the side of the hospital bed of his father, Frank,
81.
Mr. Agnes, 46, was an assistant vice president at
Cantor Fitzgerald. That's what his card says, a small,
token leftover from a decent life. Perhaps, the
possession that speaks more to the soul of her son, said
Mrs. Agnes, 71, was a lock of his daughter's hair found
in his safe deposit box. "That's the sort of thing a
woman keeps," she said. "But that tells you what David's
daughter meant to him."
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