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Covenant Pastor's Goddaughter Dies in Pentagon Air Crash
SANTA BARBARA, CA (September 17, 2001) - Kendall Dahlstrom, pastor of the Evangelical Covenant Church in South Bend, Indiana, conducted the funeral service Sunday for his goddaughter, Mari-Rae Sopper, who died when her American Airlines flight slammed into the Pentagon Tuesday.
Sopper recently was appointed women's gymnastics coach at the University of California-Santa Barbara. She was an attorney with the Judge Advocate General and coached gymnastics at the U.S. Naval Academy before accepting her new position.
The 35-year-old was a graduate of Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois, where she was an all-state gymnast along with her sister, Tammy.
American Airlines Flight 77 left Dulles Airport early Tuesday morning bound for Los Angeles International Airport when it was hijacked by terrorists.
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