CNN.com on Navy Shipyard Victim •Mary DeLorenzo Knight, Mary Francis Knight, 51, of Reston, Virginia, was an information technology contractor who had been in Washington for five years, her family told CNN affiliate WITN. The daughter of a Green Beret and a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, Knight had two daughters herself -- Nicole, who got married earlier this year, and Danielle, who lived with Knight. Knight was also an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College. "She was a great patriot who loved her country and loved serving the USA," family spokesman Theodore Hisey told WITN.

CNN.com on Navy Shipyard Victim • Martin Bodrog, 54, of Annandale, Virginia, grew up in New Jersey, Indiana and Massachusetts and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1981 before serving 22 years in the military, where he received numerous awards and medals, according to a family statement. After his career, he oversaw the design and procurement of ships for the Navy. Bodrog and his family (wife of 23 years, Melanie, and daughters Isabel, 23, Sophie, 17, and Rita, 16) taught Sunday school for pr

Washington Post on Washington Navy Shipyard victim Gerald Read: A man with a gun was on a rampage in Gerald Read’s office in the Navy Yard, shooting people at close range and seemingly drawn to any human movement in his vicinity. As the shooter approached Read and a female colleague, Read pushed the co-worker beneath a desk, barricaded her in and pulled a cubicle partition into the gunman’s path, hoping to stop or slow him. The maneuver did not save Read’s life. But his colleague survived. “I

CNN.com on Navy Shipyard Victim • Vishnu Shalchendia Pandit, 61, of North Potomac, Maryland, had a stream of cars arriving at his home late Monday, neighbor Zhaohua Zhou told The Washington Post. Mike Honig, another neighbor, described Pandit as "a very nice man with an Irish setter." He said Pandit and his wife had lived in the neighborhood for 20 years.

CNN.com on Navy Shipyard Victim • Michael Arnold, 59, of Lorton, Virginia, had a cold Monday, and his wife called to check on him when she heard an alarm in the background. He said he'd call her back, Arnold's mother told CNN affiliate WDIV. He never had the chance. Arnold -- a Naval Academy grad, veteran of 29 years and avid pilot -- was building his own plane that he hoped to fly to Michigan, where his mother, Patricia, lives, before he turned 60, the station said. He had two master's degree

D.C. Radio's WTOP on Frank Kohler, 50, was a past president of the Rotary Club in Lexington Park, Md. As such, he proudly held the title of "King Oyster" at the annual festival celebrating the region's signature bivalve the third weekend of each October. "He walks around with a crown and robe and gives out candy," said Bob Allen, Kohler's former boss at Lockheed Martin in southern Maryland. "In fact, he was in charge of the beer stand. I used to have that job and when I left, I handed it off to

NPR on Washington Navy Shipyard victim Kathy Gaarde, 62, of Woodbridge, Va., was a financial analyst who a neighbor says may have been close to retiring; her husband retired from the Navy last year, the AP reports. "Today my life partner of 42 years (38 of them married) was taken from me, my grown son and daughter, and friends," her husband, Douglass Gaarde, wrote in an email to the news agency. We were just starting to plan our retirement activities and now none of that matters. It hasn't full

NYTimes on Washington Navy Shipyard victim Sylvia Frasier, 53: Ms. Frasier had a personality that was “bright, just like her blond hair, and lit up a room,” her colleague, Laceysha Garcia, said. She was part of a big tight-knit family, with five sisters and one brother, and she lived with one of her sisters in Waldorf, Md. Since 2000, she had worked at the Naval Sea Systems Command as an information assurance manager. On nights and weekends, she worked part time at a Walmart in Waldorf, where

The Baltimore Sun on funeral of Navy Shipyard victim Richard "Mike" Ridgell: Ryan Supplee recalled being extremely nervous the first time he met his girlfriend's father, a former Maryland State Police trooper who also served as a civilian police officer in Iraq. Supplee recalled thinking to himself: "She's [his girlfriend] beautiful; her dad has to be really mean." What he found in Richard "Mike" Ridgell was a fun-loving, jokester who became a second father to him. "He made a huge imprint on

CNN.com on Navy Shipyard Victim • John Roger Johnson, 73, of Derwood, Maryland, "always had a smile on his face," one of his neighbors told The Washington Post, adding that Johnson had lived in the neighborhood for more than 30 years. A civilian who worked for the Navy, Johnson was described as a "smart man." "He loved children. He loved our grandchildren. No one could ask for a better neighbor," she told the newspaper.

NBCNews on Washington Navy Shipyard victim Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46 A civilian employee at the shipyards who had spent 22 years working for the federal government, Proctor had called his ex-wife on Monday morning, the woman told the AP. “He just went in there in the morning for breakfast,” Evelyn Proctor told the AP on Monday. “He didn’t even work in the building. It was a routine thing for him to go there in the morning for breakfast, and unfortunately it happened.”

NYDailyNews on Washington Navy Shipyard victim Michael Arnold, a former Navy commander, loved building and designing ships almost as much as he loved his family. The 59-year-old husband and father of two sons was one of the 12 innocents slain when a gunman opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard Monday. The names of eight of the dead were identified by Washington authorities Monday night. “He was a wonderful person, a loving son, brother and father to two boys, Chris and Eric,” Arnold’s uncle, Steve Hunter, told the Daily News. “It was just a normal day going to work.” Hunter said he last saw his nephew over Labor Day weekend when Arnold drove from Virginia to Michigan to visit his mother, Patricia Arnold. She was too distraught to speak to a reporter after learning of her son’s murder.