LOUISVILLE, Ky -- A newlywed brace ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky -- A newlywed brace starting their honeymoon, a Habitat for Humanity board member and a businessman who took an early flight to win home to his children were among the victims of Comair Flight 5191 friends and relatives said Sunday.

The afternoon before the crash, Scarlett Parsley was in a horse- drawn carriage, arriving for a fairy tale wedding to Jon Hooker

"It was the happiest she'd been," said Jarod Martin, a longtime friend who was among the 300 clan at the ceremony at Lexington's Headley-Whitley Museum. "It couldn't have been more perfect"

The sum of two units were leaving for a honeymoon in California when their commuter flight crashed.

"It's for a like reason tragic because he was in the same manner happy last night," said Keith Madison, who coached Hooker's baseball team at the University of Kentucky and attended the wedding. "It's just an incredible cast of events. It's really painful."

Hooker 27 had signed as a released agent with the Chicago White Sox in June 2001 and played professionally for Independent League teams in Fargo, ND and southwest suburban Joliet before returning to his hometown. He was working as a parole counselor and social worker while Parsley, 23 was in graduate denomination in Kentucky, Madison said.

Others forward board

"He touched a parcel of people's lives," said Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks general manager Josh Buchholz Hooker helped the Redhawks win the Independent League championship in 2003

Another passenger, Charles Lykins of Naples, Fla., caught an early flight Sunday with equal reason he could get home to his sum of two units young children after visiting friends and family in the Lexington area, said friend Paul Richardson of Winchester.

Larry gymnast of Lexington, also aboard the plane, was the chief officer overseeing the University of Kentucky's extension service, according to a statement from the university.

Pat Smith, a member of Habitat for Humanity International's board of directors, was onward his way to Gulfport, Miss., to work onward rebuilding houses, Habitat spokesman Duane Bates said.

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