Gregory P. Staskal
Gregory P. Staskal, 74, of Cuba City passed away on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25 at the United Methodist Church in Cuba City with Pastor Jessica Graham and Pastor Rick McDermott officiating. Burial will be in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Cuba City. Family and friends may call from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at the Haudenshield Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Cuba City, also on Thursday, Feb. 25 from 9:30 a.m. until the time of service at the United Methodist Church in Cuba City. Due to current state and health regulations, face masks and social distancing guidelines will be implemented. The Haudenshield Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Cuba City, WI is serving the family.
A few paces from where the statue of Old Joe once honored Civil War confederate soldiers, a different group of people were honored Saturday 12 Gainesville men who were lynched after the war.
The ceremony was part of Alachua County’s truth and reconciliation project to acknowledge the extra-judicial killings often by mobs.
“In 1865, after two-and-a-half centuries of brutal enslavement, Black Americans had great hope that emancipation would finally mean real freedom and opportunity,” said the Rev. Carl Smart, an assistant county manager. “Unfortunately it quickly became clear that emancipation did not mean equality for Black people .The hope of reconstruction quickly became a nightmare of unparalleled violence and oppression.”
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Feb 16, 2021 Susan Norma Jeanne Sutton, often known as Norma Rowell, age 75, of Saranac Lake, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, at Spring Cypress Assisted Living in Cypress, Texas. Born and raised in Millville, New Jersey to the late Leamond and Norma (Petit) Sutton, Susan graduated from Millville High School, graduated from Helene Fuld School of Nursing on a full scholarship, then went on to earn her bachelor’s degree from SUNY Plattsburgh in New York state. Often described by friends and family as one of the funniest people they ever met, Susan was incorrectly described as quiet on many occasions. She settled in Saranac Lake, where she raised her two children in the Adirondack Park. She taught her kids to ski by dragging them off the T-bar every time she fell when at Mount Pisgah. Susan bribed her daughter with a quarter to encourage her to ride in her dad’s Death Glider, where she screamed all the way down. Susan was eventually forgiven.