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The Morgan family had planned a Christmas homecoming for 37- year-old Jane Ann Morgan, but instead they will have a memorial service.
Morgan, an attorney working for an American law firm in London, was among the 258 people who died Wednesday aboard Pan Am Flight 103 and one of 11 Californians or former residents killed in the crash.
"The table was set, and the place cards were out," said Morgan's sister-in-law, Karen Morgan. "It was going to be at her mother's house, and it was going to be a very special Christmas because we hadn't seen Jane the year before."
The memorial service was to be this morning at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, a private preparatory school Morgan attended as a child.
Meanwhile, the family of another crash victim traced a dentist to Los Angeles, where he was on vacation, in order to identify their lost member.
Joei Gewanter of Cedarhurst, N.Y., appeared on WNBC-TV in New York to ask for help Sunday in locating the dentist in order to identify Chris Papadopoulos, who was aboard Flight 103.
The dentist's family saw the report and found the doctor, who arranged for his secretary to release Papadopoulos' dental records.
Flight 103 crashed in and around Lockerbie, Scotland, less than an hour after taking off from London. All aboard and many on the ground died.
Morgan's family said that at first they didn't think she was among the victims.
''She was supposed to be on an earlier flight on TWA, but she canceled it and took the Pan Am flight because it was leaving later and she could spend a full day in the office," said Karen Morgan.
And when the list of victims was released, the family did not immediately make the connection that a passenger listed as J. Morgan of New York was in fact Jane.
Morgan had moved from New York to London about four months ago to accept a job with the Albert Partnership. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English literature and earned a law degree from Duke University. She had been focusing on entertainment law in her new job.
The other Californians and former state residents who died in the crash were: (check) Matthew K. Gannon of Orange, assigned to the State Department's Middle East bureau and returning home from a stint as political officer in Beirut, Lebanon.
(check) Lilibeth Macololooy, 27, a flight attendant who grew up in Long Beach after her family emigrated from the Philippines.
(check) Jocelyn Reina, 26, of La Palma, a flight attendant.
(check) Liz Mareck, 30, of Los Angeles, a peace activist, aspiring actress and singer in a rock band.
(check) Lou Marengo, 33, of Los Angeles, director of U.S. marketing for Volkswagen of America.
(check) Diane Boatman-Fuller, 35, former English teacher at Hollywood High School of the Performing Arts who had moved to Europe within the past year to pursue a career as a playwright.
(check) Jerry Avritt, 46, of Westminster, the Boeing 747's flight engineer. (check) Barry Valentino, 28, creative designer at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
(check) Paul Garrett, who attended high school in Millbrae and lived in Napa until moving to Paris a year ago.
(check) J. White, a passenger listed as being from California.