Margaret Elaine Mattic, 51; originally from Detroit, Michigan. Margaret was a Customer Service Account Representative for General Telecom in the north tower of the World Trade Center. According to the Detroit News account of September 5, 2006, Ms. Mattic went to New York to pursue a career as an actress and playwright. She is survived by her sister Jean Neal of Detroit. Ms. Mattic lived in New York, She graduated from Cass Technical High school in Detroit, and graduated from Wayne State University in 1973.

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on December 22, 2001

Margaret Mattic was the only one of the five Mattic girls of Detroit to have dimples. Right and left, the dimples set off the shy smile and the lilting, gentle voice that everyone remarked on. As a young girl, in elementary school productions, she played Snow White as well as Gretel in “Hansel and Gretel.”

The love of performing stuck with Ms. Mattic, a surprise since she seemed so quiet. She studied theater at Wayne State University. After college, more productions followed, mostly in community theater, often in plays like “Sty of the Blind Pig,” the 1971 work by Phillip Hayes Dean about a black family in Chicago.

Eventually, Ms. Mattic wound up in Manhattan to pursue acting. She usually took temporary jobs, typically as a receptionist, so she could go to auditions.

Recently, she talked to friends about producing and starring in a one-woman play she had written, called “The Vision,” about how the gift of prophecy changed several generations of a family. At 51, she also wanted the comfort of a permanent job, so she became a customer service representative for General Telecom in the World Trade Center. “Every employer she ever worked for always loved her voice,” recalled her sister, Jean Neal, 56. “It was so soothing and gentle and soft.”