WAUKESHA, Wis. — The Dancing Grannies will dance in Waukesha once again.
The group lost 3 of its members — Virginia “Ginny” Sorenson, Leanna Owen and Tamara Durand — in the Waukesha parade tragedy in Nov. 2022, when Darrell Brooks Jr. drove through the parade, killing six people and injuring dozens more.
Wilhelm “Bill” Hospel, a husband of one of the Dancing Grannies, was also killed.
The group said in a Facebook post it is grateful for the outcome of the Brooks trial. He was found guilty on all 76 charges. Yet, they are still “learning to live the pain of terrible and totally senseless loss.”
“Even with all of this… lives are still gone. Lives are forever changed. A guilty verdict will never fix or change that,” the group wrote in a Thursday Facebook post.
The group announced it has a “busy” holiday parade lineup this year. Their first parade of the season will be Nov. 12.
The group said it will dance in the Waukesha Christmas Parade on Dec. 4.
“The next few months with parades will be hard, and will also be an active sign of resilience, of still living with deep and real trauma, as well as making choices to do what we need to do to heal individually and as a group,” the Facebook post said. “We will go on. Ultimately darkness will not overcome the light.”
Their first parade performance after the attack was the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Milwaukee.
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