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A cruise-loving business owner, a devoutly Catholic great-grandmother and a volunteer firefighter were among five fatalities in the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.
Most of those shot dead Friday — allegedly by Esteban Santiago — were on their way to vacations in the sun. Fort Lauderdale is a major jumping off point for people on Caribbean cruises.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, resident Michael Oehme loved to cruise with his wife, Kari.
Michael, 57, was a land surveyor and owned Boundaryline Surveys.
Kari, a clerical worker, is hospitalized with injuries from a gunshot to the shoulder. She was one of six wounded in the horror.
Also about to go cruising, reportedly to celebrate her husband’s 90th birthday, was Olga Woltering of Marietta, Ga. Ralph Woltering was not injured in the attack that took his octogenarian wife’s life.
Olga had been an active parishioner since 1978 at the Catholic Church of the Transfiguration in Cobb County.
“She and her husband were kind of the life of the party,” parishioner Alvin Connolly said. “They’d go to a dance, and they’d be the last ones on the floor.”
Volunteer firefighter Terry Andres, 62, of Virginia Beach, Va., was also planning a 16-day cruise with his wife of four decades, Ann.
He texted his oldest daughter to let her know the plane landed safely at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post . Terry, who was raised in Millville, NJ, was shot dead while retrieving a luggage cart, the paper said. Ann was uninjured.
He volunteered with the Oceana Volunteer Fire Department in Virginia Beach, and worked for about 20 years at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.



