A living Rosary for the Meins family was held Thursday.
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SHANNON JOHNSON, 45
Johnson was the lone victim who lived in Los Angeles, commuting for more than an hour by train each morning to San Bernardino County, where he worked as a health inspector.
Girlfriend Mandy Pfifer said Shannon liked to finish all his paperwork on the train so he had extra time to chat with colleagues, including Farook.
"Shannon said it was like a little United Nations," said Pfifer Cheap Nike VaporMax 2.0 Womens , a longtime member of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti's Crisis Response Team. "Shannon loved everybody."
The mayor's office said in a statement Thursday that "we have learned that one of our own ... is among those who lost their lives."
Johnson grew up in Kentucky and played baseball at a college in Georgia, said his ex-wife, Tina Johnson, who lives in South Carolina. She said they were married for six years in the 1990s.
He loved to watch sports and "had memorized all the stats," she said.
He also loved to make people laugh.
"He had southern down-home type of humor," Johnson said. "It was not dry wit."
Pfifer said that on their last morning together, she woke up unexpectedly at 3 a.m. Cheap Nike VaporMax 2.0 Mens , feeling the need to spend a couple extra hours with him.
"So that's really special," she said, breaking up. "That's a really special memory."
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TIN NGUYEN, 31
Born in Vietnam, Nguyen was 8 when her family left that country for the United States. After attending Cal State Fullerton, Nguyen worked as a food inspector with the county health department.
On Thursday, some of the small businesses that she inspected posted condolences about Nguyen.
"It was such a pleasure to have her as our Inspector Cheap Nike Air VaporMax 2.0 ," wrote Darla's Cake Design. "Many food facilities are nervous when the Health Inspector shows up....but we always had a pleasant experience along with laughter."
"Her heart was bigger than the sun and her personality was addicting," wrote friend Kim Oanh on Facebook.
She was supposed to get married at a Catholic church in 2017, her family told media outlets, and had been planning the wedding alongside her mother.
The day before Nguyen was killed, she celebrated her fiance's 32nd birthday.
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ISAAC AMANIOS, 60
Isaac Amanios was a supervising environmental health specialist.
NFL player Nat Berhe wrote on Twitter that Amanios was a relative.
"My cousin's name is Isaac Amanios and he was a great human being. Thoughts and prayers are with my family back in CA."
Berhe, who is on the injured reserve list for the New York Giants Cheap Nike VaporMax CS Womens , is from San Bernardino. He began tweeting about the shooting when it happened — and then discovered his cousin was a victim.
"Just got word that one of my cousins was among the 14 killed yesterday, I'm so sick right now."
The LA Times wrote that Amanios is survived by his wife and three children.
Chris Nwadike, a worker with the San Bernardino Department of Public Health, told The Associated Press that of all the employees in the environmental division, Syed Rizwan Farook — one of the shooters — was the friendliest with Amanios.
Nwadike said Amanios was originally from Eritrea and that he and Farook sometimes spoke Arabic together. Syed's Arabic was not very good, Nwadike said.
The two also frequently left the office together on their way to restaurant inspections.
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HARRY BOWMAN, 46
Bowman Cheap Nike VaporMax CS Mens , a lover of the outdoors who doted on his two daughters, had only recently been hired as a statistical analyst for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health.
For several years, he had been an expert on data sets and mapping for the University of Southern California's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.
"He was a great guy, very friendly, always willing to help," said Isaac Maya, the center's director of research and transition Cheap Nike Air VaporMax CS , who recalled writing a glowing letter of recommendation when Bowman decided to change fields.
"We had a very nice lunch for him at the University Club" when he left, Maya said.
At the center he'd used his expertise in software, mapping and data sets to evaluate the risk and economic impact of terrorist events in order to guide authorities in their planning and decision making.
Bowman, who lived in Upton, was also a dedicated member of the Roman Catholic Church who frequently taught religious classes.
Much of the rest of his free time was spent hiking or visiting with his school-age daughters, whose college education he was saving for.
"This is a tragic loss for our family, much like it is for all families around the world who have experienced this kind of violence Cheap Nike VaporMax Moc Womens ," his family said in a statement. "There are no words that express our sadness in losing such a special person."
Bowman was also a native of Pennsylvania, and that state's governor, Tom Wolf, offered his condolences following what he called this "senseless violence."
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JUAN ESPINOZA, 50.
Espinoza, of Highland, was remembered by a former co-worker.
Scott Wyatt met Espinoza about 10 years ago when Wyatt worked in a juvenile court teacher and Espinoza was a corrections officer.
"He was a simple guy Cheap Nike VaporMax Moc Mens , quiet, a person who didn't like attention, just liked to do what he had to do," said Wyatt. "This hits close to home."
According to media reports, Espinoza was a health inspector with San Bernardino County.
A Mexican federal official said Espinoza was born in Mexico and emigrated to the United States more than 20 years ago. Mexican consular officials contacted Espinoza's family anyway to offer assistance, but the family said none was needed at the moment. The official was not authorized to be quoted by nam