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DIED. W. CLEMENT STONE, 100, positive-thinking philanthropist who turned $100 of his savings into a multibillion-dollar insurance empire that later became the Aon Corp.; in Evanston, Ill. He used his wealth to make $275 million in charitable contributions and political donations, including millions he gave to Richard Nixon's election campaigns...
...from age, she is a preschooler, sitting in a red-and-green plaid dress at her father's desk at the World Trade Center. It was taken on one of her favorite days of the year, Dec. 23, when she was his official date to the annual Aon Christmas party and got to commute with him on the train...
...happened--the crumbling-towers sequence was seared in her memory--but she chose instead to believe her father's last words: I'm fine. He of all people must have known how to find the emergency exits. A safety engineer by training and an executive in risk management at Aon, George was almost comically consumed with accident prevention. He evangelized about helmets and seat belts; he even had a decibel meter that he used to measure loud music lest anyone perforate an eardrum. Hilary's dad was just a little late getting home. Maybe he was buried in the rubble...
Three days later was the first of George's three memorial services, sponsored by Aon and held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. The next two were in New Jersey: one at St. Elizabeth's Church in Avon, where Ginny and Hilary worship every Sunday, and the last at the Protestant church that George had attended growing up. Since there was still no sign of a body, Ginny propped up a framed photo of George on the altar: he was basting a Thanksgiving turkey and grinning ear to ear. At the receptions afterward, Hilary was the one grinning. Again...
...last bright moments of 2001. December brought the memory of myriad traditions--the lighting of the tree in Rockefeller Center, the annual Avon hayride, the Aon party at the World Trade Center--that Hilary used to share with her father. As with everything else, she insisted things proceed as usual, even if a male cousin or a friend's father had to act as an understudy, and then regretted it the second the event started. One of Hilary's favorite parts about Christmas was her father's ineptitude with gifts. Ginny was in charge of the present buying, but George...