Margaret L. Benson: Card Games and
Cruises
Books,
card games and cruises were Margaret L. Benson's
preferred pastimes, and her older sister, Kathy Savidge,
was her constant companion. They had scheduled a
Mediterranean dream cruise for 2005 and hoped to retire
in North Carolina. Sibling rivals, they grew up to be
best friends, and sometimes -- not always -- let their
husbands in on their high jinks.
"We planned to become little old ladies together,"
Mrs. Savidge said. "She was stubborn, set in her ways. I
remember in grammar school when the nuns wouldn't give
her a perfect 100 average even though she got all 99's
and 100's. They told her only God was perfect. She was
mad!"
Marge Benson, 52, worked for the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey for 33 years, starting as a clerk and
working up to a human resources post. She lived in
Rockaway, N.J., with her husband, Jim, and two children,
both in college. She was last seen outside a Borders
bookstore next to the twin towers.
"A friend told me to think of it this way," her sister
said. "She's in a back corner full of books, she's got a
card game going, and she's winning. I just wish I could
call and tell her that. She'd laugh."
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