John Resta, 40 and Sylvia San Pio Resta, 26 (SNYT)
The marriage proposal was famous in the Resta family. John already had a reputation as a hopeless romantic, relatives said, but on this one he outdid even himself.
Mr. Resta and his wife, Sylvia SanPio Resta, has traveled to Florida several times, and there he found a seafood restaurant that she so adored. So on the day he was to propose, he took the day off work. He had a meal - lobster and other dishes - and menus flown into New York City from the restaurant. He rented a tuxedo, a top hat and a cane, and spent the day setting up their apartment in Queens with candles, a fancy tablecloth and flowers.
Mr. Resta's cousin said that as soon as he met Sylvia, he could not stop talking about her, especially her habit of reading cookbooks on the train, from cover to cover, as it they were novels. Ms. Resta was artistic, yet she had a mind for numbers, said her sister. In college, she was a double major in mathematics and ceramics, and had recently inspired her husband to take up oil painting.
Mr. Resta adored children, and his sister Chris said he was obsessed with his wife's pregnancy, voraciously reading every childbirth book he could get his hands on and doting on her constantly.
When the two - both traders at Carr Futures - were killed in the Sept. 11th attack, she was seven months pregnant with their first child. |
