More information is coming out Tuesday about the five victims killed in the Waukesha Christmas parade horror. They were identified Monday as Wilhelm Hospel, 81, Virginia Sorenson, 79; LeAnna Owen, 71; Tamara Durand, 52 and Jane Kulich, 52.
From left to right: Jane Kulich, LeAnna Owen, Wilhelm Hospel and Tamara Durand. (Facebook)
Virginia Sorenson
Sorenson, 79, was the longtime choreographer of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies group – several members of which are among the deaths.
David Sorenson, her husband of nearly 60 years, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about how she loved working with the Grannies.
This undated image from video provided by CBS 58 Milwaukee shows Virginia Sorenson of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies.
(CBS 58 Milwaukee via AP)
“What did she like about it? Everything,” David Sorenson said. “She liked the instructing. She liked the dancing and the camaraderie of the women. She liked to perform.”
The newspaper also reports that the Sorensons had three children and six grandchildren.
Virginia – a registered nurse – also cared for two horses, chickens, dogs and cats at her home in Muskego, it added.
Tamara Durand
Durand, 52, was a mother of three with one grandchild. She babysat her grandson so her daughter could finish nursing school and volunteered at hospitals and hospices.
She was doing her first show with the Grannies on Sunday, her husband, Dave Durand, told the Associated Press.
Tamara Durand reportedly was participating in her first Milwaukee Dancing Grannies performance when she was killed. (Facebook)
“She basically danced her way through life,” he said of his wife of eight years, a hospice chaplain and former high school and college cheerleader who was “super excited” for her first performance. “She was totally energetic and was her happiest when she was dancing.”
Durand spent more than 17 years working as an elementary school teacher at the Beaver Dam Unified School…
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