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He died at age 32 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on board United Airlines flight 93. He is survived by his wife, Lisa Beamer, two sons, David and Drew, and a daughter, Morgan Kay, who was born on January 9, 2002 -- nearly four months after her father's death.

Todd and other passengers had been in communication with people via cell phones and learned that the World Trade Center had been destroyed using hijacked airplanes. He had been talking with a GTE Airfone operator (Beamer used GTE as his cell phone service provider) located in the GTE service center in Oak Brook, Illinois named Lisa D. Jefferson for about 13 minutes.

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Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way, WashingtonFederal Way is a city located in King County, Washington, United States. Federal Way is an edge city between Seattle and Tacoma. It is located on Puget Sound. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 83,259. The population including surro, which opened in early September 2003, is named after him. A post office in Trenton, New Jersey, was also named after him.