July 31, 1999
Web posted at: 12:05 a.m. EDT (0405 GMT)

ATLANTA -- Families and friends of victims of Mark Barton's shooting rampage are grieving Saturday, as they make plans to bury their loved ones.

The shooting victims were planning everything from pilgrimages to birthday celebrations.

Little more than a day after the Thursday afternoon shootings, a few details emerged about the lives of those who died:

Dean Delawalla's daughter Shahala turned 4 on Thursday, but he was saving the big bash for Sunday -- a trip with her school friends to Chuck E. Cheese.

"The way it looks, the funeral may be Sunday," said Delawalla's brother Fred.

Dean Delawalla, 52, who had given up his law practice last year to focus on options trading, was gunned down in his broker's office.

Eight other people were killed in the rampage at two Atlanta brokerages, and 13 were injured. Barton also killed his wife and two children, and committed suicide as police moved in to arrest him, officials said.

Kevin Dial

Another victim was Texas native Kevin Dial, 38, office manager at Momentum Securities, where the shooting started. Dial was the son of former Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Buddy Dial.

"I never saw the guy without a smile on his face -- never, not once," said Eric Blaier, who works down the hall as a sales manager with Allegiance Telecom. He stood with a Diet Coke and stared in disbelief at the satellite trucks ringing his workplace.

"Probably one of the happiest guys I ever saw."

Edward Quinn

Like Delawalla, other victims were in the offices to day trade on the stock market. One of them was Edward Quinn, 58.

The father of three was only a couple of years into his retirement after decades with United Parcel Service, where he last served as Southeast regional director for security and loss prevention.

Friends and neighbors said Quinn seemed to have three passions besides his family -- his lawn, fly-fishing and golf.

"When he retired, his plan was to begin traveling the world and playing at all the great old courses across the planet," said Ken Sternad, a UPS spokesman who had known Quinn for 10 years. "That was his goal."

Charles Allen Tenenbaum

Charles Allen Tenenbaum, 48, was another of the day traders. Tenenbaum jogged several miles a day, was president of his synagogue and ran his family's grocery business, Great Savings.

His synagogue's rabbi, S. Robert Ichay, said Tenenbaum was planning his first pilgrimage to Israel next year. And last week, he talked with his wife about getting burial plots.

"I don't think he had a premonition of anything," Ichay said. "But he knew that life was not always the way we imagine it, or the way we would like it to be -- that things could happen. And therefore he was a great believer in doing things and not missing opportunities -- and doing them with people he loved."

One of the victims had nothing to do with the stock market. Vadewattee Muralidhara, 44, had just moved to Atlanta from tiny Swainsboro three months ago with her pediatrician husband. The soft-spoken homemaker and mother of two college-aged children was at the financial center taking a computer course "to expand her knowledge," said Peggy Corbin, a friend.

"The one thing I would say is she was a very sweet-spirited person," Ms. Corbin said. "Just very dedicated to her children. They were her life."

Another victim, Scott Webb, 30, had just moved from Chesterfield, Missouri, an upscale community outside St. Louis.

"A lot of single people don't take the time to be really kind to their neighbors," said a neighbor, Susan Frey. "He was such a nice young man and always had the time for a beautiful smile."

She added: "I wish he had never moved to Atlanta."

Also killed was 42-year-old Russell J. Brown of Cumming, Georgia. Police did not release the names of the other two people who died at the brokerage firms.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.