Newlywed, 72, Among Passengers

Virginia Chaplin was a newlywed at 72.

A week after celebrating her first wedding anniversary with Richard Brokaw, a retired scientist, she and her husband headed for Egypt and a trip down the Nile River.

But it wasn't to be. Their plane, EgyptAir Flight 990, went down in the Atlantic after departing from Kennedy International Airport early yesterday.

The couple met while traveling in Greece and split their time between Chaplin's house in Georgetown, Maine, and Brokaw's house in Strafford, Vt.

"He was just so lucky to find love again," said Brokaw's daughter, Frances Brokaw of Norwich, Vt. "As horrible as all this is, they didn't leave anything undone. He had a job that he loved, he had a successful career, he lived in the place he wanted to live. We'll miss them a lot."

They were among the 217 people on board who are now feared dead. The National Transportation Safety Board and the airline did not immediately release a list of the passengers and crew, but relatives and friends began speaking about the loved ones feared lost.

Among those identified:

California:

Judy Bowman, 57, of Huntington Beach; Beverly Grant, 82, of Santa Ana; Sheila Jaffee, 63, of Huntington Beach; Tobey Seidman, 71, of Irvine. Friends said the four were members of a card club that had planned a trip to Egypt for nearly a year.

Kurt Schwenk, 39, of Palo Alto, director of business development at Santa Clara-based Palm Computing. Imilda Kolander, 66, of San Ramon.

Colorado:

Jan Duckworth, 69, of Denver, making her first trip to Egypt.

Tom McCulloch, 72, of rural La Plata County, a retired surgeon.

Connecticut:

Gene Billings, 70, and wife Barbara, 71, and Henrietta Mead, 61, all of Norfolk.

Martin and Natalie Greenberg, both in their 70s, of Ridgefield.

Illinois:

Eugenia Rhodes, 80, of Chicago, traveling with an Elderhostel group to Egypt as a "birthday present to herself," said her minister.

Maryland:

Arthur Simermeyer, 72, and his wife, Marie, 60, of Randallstown. Arthur Simermeyer was a retired deputy commissioner for Social Security.

Donald and Jeanne "Bea" Heck of Chestertown and their neighbors, John and Joan Schelpert.

Michigan:

Norm and Joan Shapiro of Bloomfield Township and Larry and Edith Kowalsky of West Bloomfield. The Shapiros and the Kowalskys were traveling together on vacation.

Mississippi:

Edmund Miller Sr. and his wife, Hannah, in their 70s, of West Point, Miss., on vacation to Egypt and Israel.

New Jersey:

Willie Jackson Sr., 61, and his wife, Mitzi Swench, of Scotch Plains, who also had a home in Orlando, Fla.

Ohio:

Tom and Deannie Stone of Columbus, going on vacation to Egypt.

Dr. Stephen Reinhart, 38, and Rafik Iskander, 40, of Lakewood.

Dr. Adel Elkousy, 65, of Chillichothe and his wife, whose name was not immediately available. Elkousy was radiology chief at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Oregon:

Neal Walker, 75, and Elaine Walker, 64, retirees from Oregon City.

Texas:

Mary Lou Sterner, 66, of Olmito.

Canada:

Claude Masson and his wife, Jeannine Bourdage, both 58.

Salah Adam, 32, his wife, Shaline, 42, and their children, Joshua, 4, and Rebecca, 22 months.

Anna Kogan, a retired teacher, and her husband, Mark, of Toronto.

Egypt:

Abdel-Rahman Amin and his wife, Alia Abdou, of Cairo.

Abdu Elzanaty and his wife, Fawqia, of Cairo.

Four exchange students, Sameh Morkos, 15, Ahmed Aboshamah, 13, Walla Zeid, 19, and Gehed Mohamed, 12, and their chaperone, Gehed's father, Hosam Mohamed Ahmed, all of Luxor.

Aviation and security sources said more than 30 Egyptian military officers from various branches of the armed forces were on board. Information from Reuters is included in this report.