The ashes of a big-eyed, brown and white puppy named Lisa that died last week in a plane crash in New York’s Catskill Mountains were being delivered Sunday to the family of the animal rescue pilot who lost his life trying to give the dog a chance at a new one.
Leah Kim, the 16-year-old daughter of volunteer pilot Seuk Kim, 49, said the family came up with the idea for the memorial flight as a way to complete her father’s mission with the rescue group Pilots n Paws and to ensure Lisa finally had a home.
“We all sat down and talked about what we’d like to do with his remains. And then we were given the option to have Lisa’s remains brought to us, we decided that we would all feel much better if she was with us,” Kim said in a telephone interview from Springfield, Virginia….