Rev Susan C. Bunge-Quigley Apr 11, 1956 – Oct 29, 2003
Hit-and-run victim
Epitaph: Best Friends, We Grew Up Together
and Realized Many Dreams.
Susan Quigley was crossing Sherman Ave. at the intersection with Vahlen Street when she was struck & killed by a car driven
by Marjorie Speranza (76) that had run the stop sign on Vahlen, and was traveling at a high rate of speed. Speranza did not stop,
it took 10 weeks to track her down.
Speranza has maintained that she was not on Madison's North Side that night and never drove at night because of her poor
eyesight; however, police learned that just before the crash she had been at dinner with friends at the Esquire Club just a
few blocks away. Police also had the side mirror of Speranza’s Toyota Camry, which was broken off at the crash scene.
Speranza was found guilty of hit-and-run. The judge Ordered her to spend a year at home on electronic monitoring and never again
drive a car. He also ordered that she visit Quigley's grave during the anniversary week of her death.
