New dad receives 24-year-old letter penned by his hero flight attendant mom shortly before she was killed on 9/11: ‘Very proud of him’

New Father Receives Letter Written By Hero Flight Attendant Mom 24 Years After 9/11

A kindergarten teacher kept a mother's handwritten note for 24 years before delivering it to the woman's son this week. The mother died on September 11, 2001.

New dad receives 24-year-old letter penned by his hero flight attendant mom shortly before she was killed on 9/11: ‘Very proud of him’

Jevon Castrillo, 30, was only in elementary school when his heroic flight attendant mother, CeeCee Lyles, went down with United Airlines Flight 93 after it was hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.

Who Was CeeCee Lyles? Florida Man Gets Letter From Mom Years After She Died on 9/11 Flight

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — For most of his life, Jevon Castrillo has carried only fragments of memories of his mother. He was just a child when CeeCee Lyles, a flight attendant on United Airlines Flight 93, was killed during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Now 30 and a new father himself, Castrillo recently received a gift that brought his mother’s words back to him in her own handwriting. His former kindergarten teacher, Tammy Thurman, had …