The Voice of Marana since 2007
Volume 29• Number 41 October 5, 2022
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David Udall continues his family’s legacy
INSIDE Graduation Ceremony
BY KAREN SCHAFFNER
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and years that follow. She has trained staff for almost four decades and co-facilitates the monthly Genesis OB/GYN/Embrace Circle support group. “It’s been my life mission for over 40 years to really help people understand it’s the loss of their future,” she said. “It’s not just a tiny baby. What a lot of folks don’t understand is it isn’t just the size of the body. It’s really about love. Even if you love them deeply for 12 weeks in utero, chances are you wanted the baby all your life—especially for girls.” Ilse and her team founded Walk to Remember in Tucson to remember babies and infants gone too soon. This year, it is scheduled for 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at Children’s Memo
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Participants rest after a previous year’s Walk to Remember. (Sherokee Ilse/Submitted)
OV resident, walk support those who lost babies
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ro Valley resident Sherokee Ilse empathizes with families who have lost babies. As a bereaved mother years ago — “It doesn’t matter how long ago it was,” she said — Ilse didn’t know what to do. “It’s very lonely,” Ilse said. “You think something is wrong—you’re an inadequate mother, the siblings think it’s their fault. It can eat away at you.” Since her losses, Ilse has become a nationally recognized expert, parent advocate, author and international speaker on helping families receive compassionate and wise care from the time they receive the sad news as well as in the days, weeks
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avid Udall, 35, has a lot of responsibility. As assistant town attorney, he gives legal advice to Marana’s staff, including the water department — one of his interests. Now, he has added a new job: Marana’s new clerk. “My new job, the official title is clerk-slash-town-assistant-attorney,” said Udall, who has five children with his wife. His new duties include oversight of town records, “so records management across the town,” Udall said. “The town clerk oversees town elections and prepares agendas for town council meetings and taking minutes at those meetings.” There are plenty of records under Udall’s watch: marriage and property among them, but whatever falls under public information. These documents are accessible upon request, though there is a process to obtain them. Then there are documents that contain Social Security numbers and documents that contain critical infrastructure information that need to be protected. Udall handles those, too. The town clerk also prepares the
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