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Posted at 10:28 a.m., Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Two more victims ID'd in fatal helicopter crash

Associated Press

LIHU'E — Two tourists from Portland, Maine, were identified as the remaining victims killed in the crash of a tour helicopter last Friday.

Mary Soucy, 62, and Catherine Baron, 68, were best friends, according to Baron's son-in-law, Mark Philbrick.

Baron had retired this summer from her job as an administrator at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie Center; Soucy worked at Deering Pavilion, an elderly housing complex in Portland.

The two had spent the past two weeks touring Hawai'i and the helicopter trip likely was to be a final highlight of their trip, Philbrick said.

"Cathy had worked hard and long at the Muskie School in order to be able to retire to focus on her grandchildren, gardening and traveling, and this was her first trip with her best friend after her retirement," Philbrick said. "They were near the end of their second week of vacation in Hawai'i and taking that stupid helicopter trip was kind of a highlight ... People are really going to miss her."