HONOLULU -- A Wisconsin man celebrating his wedding anniversary was one of three people killed in Friday's tour helicopter crash off Kauai. On Tuesday, authorities released the names of the other two victims.

They are Mary Soucy, 62, and Catherine Baron, 68. Both are from Portland, Maine. Family members say the two were best friends.

They said both were widows and had been on vacation in Hawaii the past two weeks.

The third victim was identified Monday as Laverne Clifton, 68. The man's daughter and her husband, who are newlyweds, survived the crash. She spoke with KITV for the first time since the crash.

Karen Clifton and her husband traveled from Beloit, Wis., just south of Madison, to her honeymoon on Kauai. Her father and mother came along on their wedding anniversary.

"God only takes the best, I think he just went to be," Karen Clifton said. "I really believe it was just really a fluke accident. I think it was just, you know, my dad's number was up, and God took him."

Clifton looked at the last pictures taken of her father -- photos from their trip to Hawaii that took his life.

"His lifelong dream was to take my mom to Hawaii. So, he got to do that," Clifton said.

Laverne Clifton and his wife, Barbara, were celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary. Karen Clifton and husband Bill Thorson were on Kauai as well, on their honeymoon. Barbara stayed behind as her husband, daughter and son-in-law took a tour helicopter ride Friday.

Karen said the helicopter ran into a wall of wind and rain before the copter crashed into the ocean off Haena on Kauai's North Shore.

"We were trying to turn away from the storm and we got caught in the storm before the pilot could turn around. And we just crashed in the water. The pilot, I think, landed the best he could, otherwise we may, neither one of us might not be here," Karen Clifton said.

Her husband swam to the surface first.

"He was looking for me, and then I came up next. And then I just was asking 'Where's my dad?' And then Bill went back down and found him and tried to resuscitate him. And then, all of us hung on together until, in that raging storm, until we could get to shore," Karen said. "He had taken on a lot of water, so we didn't know, with all the life preservers and stuff, we couldn't tell whether we had gotten the water out or not. But, he was trying, my husband tried. He did the best he could."

However, her father was already dead.

"He died doing what he wanted to do: having fun, enjoying life," she said. "I'll never set forth in a helicopter again. I don't think any of us will."

A National Transportation Safety Board investigator spent the day documenting the wreckage that was removed from 30 feet of ocean Sunday. Another NTSB investigator interviewed employees from Heli-USA, the tour helicopter company whose chopper crashed.

NTSB officials said the pilot, Glen Lampton, 43, who survived the crash, had about 16 years of experience flying in the military and in television news helicopters on the mainland. The NTSB said he'd been working for the tour company on Kauai for six or seven weeks.

The NTSB said Lampton had about 2,900 hours of flight time

Karen Clifton spoke from back home in Wisconsin, where she's an evidence officer with the Beloit Police Department.

The names of the other two victims have not been released yet. Kauai officials said a relative of one of the victims was flying to Kauai Monday to identify one of the dead.