In Memory of Flight 5191 - Please Help!

As you may know, Comair Flight 5191 crashed in Lexington a little after 6:00 am on Sunday morning. Forty-seven passengers and 2 crew members perished in that flight - one crew member, the co-pilot, survived. I knew three of those people and was familiar with many more.

Carole Bizzack - Wife of John Bizzack. My last "real" job I had was with Bittersweet Associates. John was part owner of Bittersweet. The offices were located in the farm office of Bittersweet Farm in Lexington where John and Carole lived. Carole would come into the office daily just laughing and joking. She was SO witty, and she was one of the most sincere people you could ever meet. She loved her horses and her dogs, and she loved people. She could lighten up a room just by entering it. I am SO much better for having known her. Besides John, she also leaves behind two grown children, Stacy and Jason.

Larry Turner - Larry was the neighbor of my Aunt Jane. He was associate dean of Agriculture for the Univ. of Kentucky. Before this plane crash, he had survived two near-fatal car accidents and he had survived male breast cancer.

Les Morris II - Mr. Morris was associated with the law offices of Stoll, Keenon, Ogden. I do a lot of work with this firm, and I have run into him before through both their offices and through the Bluegrass Estate Planning Council which I oversee. His wife, Kaye, was also killed in the crash.

Also, I did not know her, but the sister of Mike Browning was also killed on this flight. Mike Browning, coincidentally, is also part owner of Bittersweet Associates, along with John Bizzack. As far as I know, she and Carole were NOT flying together. They just happened to be on the same flight. As you can imagine, the whole Bittersweet office reeling from not one, but TWO losses.

Click here for the complete flight list.

On to an important issue for this post:

Amy Clay is the wife of the Captain of Flight 5191, Jeff Clay. Amy is a fellow OvuSofter (an online Mother's community, for those who aren't familiar with OvuSoft). She lives in the Northern KY area, and she had been widowed at a very young age with two small babies - one of which was just born in May. As you can imagine, Amy is destroyed right now and is especially hurt at how her husband is being portrayed in the media.

A few of us Kentucky OvuSoft gals have set up a fund for Amy and her babies to help with any expenses she may need in the short term or else to put aside for her children in a savings fund. If you are interested, you can make a donation through PayPal (http://www.paypal.com) to the address Amybethsfund@insightbb.com. Feel free to contact me with any questions.

May God bless the victims and surviving families of Flight 5191.

GONE...BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN.