Metro crash victim: Dennis Hawkins, 64

Published June 22, 2009 4:00am ET



Hawkins, 64, had left for the day from work, the Whittier Education Center in Northwest, where he was a data entry clerk.

Loretta Smith said Hawkins was a bachelor and “a marvelous, wonderful man,” she said. “He was a church-going man.”

Smith said she worked at the desk next to Hawkins for five years.

“The last thing he said to me was ‘See you tomorrow, Smitty!’” she said.

— Maria Schmitt