Oklahoma City Bombing

Peter Avillanoza
Music was one of the joys of Peter Avillanoza's life. He played a variety of musical instruments and loved to compose and sing Hawaiian songs.

A strong supporter of the community, Avillanoza was a football and baseball coach and taught judo at the YMCA.

A native of Honolulu, Avillanoza was a former officer with the Honolulu Police Department and volunteer fireman with the Honolulu Fire Department.

He earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's degree in public administration.

A month and a half ago he was transferred to Oklahoma City from California to become the director of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Before the transfer, he worked in the HUD offices in San Francisco, Orange County, Calif., and Hawaii.

Calvin Battle
Calvin Battle, 62, was a quiet man, but not when it came to sports, said his daughter, Janet Battle. "He liked the pro teams and he was a die-hard OU fan," she said.

On April 19, Battle and his wife, Peola, went to the Social Security office in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to apply for disability assistance because he had recently suffered a stroke. Peola Battle also died in the explosion.

Calvin Battle had worked as a machinist for Corken International, his daughter said.

She said her father did not judge people, but was very accepting of everyone he met. "And he loved the Lord," she said. Battle attended the Church of the Living God Temple 234.

He and his wife had been married 39 years. He had four daughters and a son.

Tylor Eaves
Eight-month-old Tylor Eaves was just beginning to pull up on things. His grandmother, Gloria Eaves Hardin, thought he'd probably be walking by nine months, just like her daughter Miya, Tylor's mother.

Miya Eaves worked at Standard Life, just a few blocks from America's Kids day-care center in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Tylor was just settling into the routine in the center, where he had started a week before the April 19 blast that took his life.

"He was a happy baby," Gloria Eaves recalled. "He was bossy and spoiled because he liked attention. He wanted to be able to see you all the time."

Tylor was a big, healthy baby, looking older than his 8 months.

"He was just getting into his personality, and he could get anything he wanted from us," Gloria Eaves said, adding that like his mother's side of the family, he had beautiful grayish-green eyes.

Carolyn Ann Kreymborg
She loved to learn and was working on her second degree in computer science at the University of Central Oklahoma. She also loved gardening and was especially fond of azaleas.

Carolyn Ann Kreymborg, 57, died in the explosion with her daughter, Michelle Reeder. They attended an azalea show in Oklahoma City as their last activity together.

Kreymborg, who was interested in art and enjoyed going to art museums, was an automation clerk for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Her husband is James Kreymborg.

Michelle Reeder
She loved gardening and adored cats.

Michelle Reeder, 33, died in the explosion with her mother, Carolyn A. Kreymborg, who also worked in the building.

Like her mother, Reeder had a special fondness for azaleas. An administrative assistant with the Federal Highway Administration, she was married to a Marine, Patrick Reeder, and was working to put him through college as he studied to be a history teacher.

Victoria J. Texter
Her VISA card program was such a model of excellence, Victoria J. Texter, 37, had recently been interviewed by a national credit union magazine for a story that now will serve as a tribute to her.

Texter was the VISA coordinator and a backup computer operator at the Federal Employees Credit Union, where she had worked the past 14 years.

A native of Chicago, Texter had lived in Oklahoma City since 1981.

Her husband, Jim, said she had been attending Rose State College, taking a variety of physical education courses.

She was a member of Sunnylane United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and American Business Women's Association.

Texter enjoyed making porcelain dolls and growing perennial flowers in her garden.

A memorial fund has been established at her church, and a college trust fund for her son, James Texter III, 15, has been set up at the Federal Employees Credit Union.