Beloved neighbor loses dog, belongings in fire

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- An arson probe is underway aft a occurrence near a pistillate who neighbors affectionately called Grandma Sue, stateless and heartbroken. 

Sue Stice raised her kids successful Union Grove. When wealth got tight, she moved into the Garden Grove mobile location community. 

Nine days ago, Stice mislaid everything, including her beloved pet.

"She was conscionable crying and devastated and bawling her eyes out," said Dawn Leppert, Stice's daughter.

Sue Stice is 73, with a bosom of golden aft a beingness of hard knocks.

"My mom's had a hard life, wide increasing up, and a batch of calamity and tragic circumstances and yet she's ever remained truly strong," said Leppert.

Perhaps this has been her hardest twelvemonth yet. A signifier 4 crab diagnosis, chemo and radiation, and present losing her location and champion friend, Brandy.

"She was my mom's closest companion. They slept successful the aforesaid furniture each night," said Leppert.

Stice was astatine a neighbor's Halloween nighttime erstwhile the occurrence sparked. 

"And I stood up and I saw the flames. The flames were rolling retired implicit the extortion and the full backmost extremity was connected fire," said Joann Beguhl, Stice's neighbor.

Beguhl rushed outside, hopeless to beryllium definite Stice, who lives adjacent door, was okay.

"Just devastating, she mislaid perfectly everything," said Beguhl.

"When I came implicit present I was truly worried, and past I saw Susie close successful beforehand of the doorway wherever 31 -- she came implicit to maine and she was crying and I started crying," said 7th grader Anthony Williams.

Children affectionately referred to Stice arsenic Grandma Sue.

"When she had her canine out, we would spell and travel up and favored the canine and speech to her and each that, she was a ace bully person," said 5th grader Paul Doerr, Stice's neighbor.

"She sits extracurricular a batch with her puppy canine Brandy, who is specified a peculiar fur baby," said Beguhl.

Paul Doerr and Anthony Williams accidental they often would halt over, favored Brandy and speech to Grandma Sue. They accidental they're missing her and her canine truthful much.

"I don't person a doggie champion person anymore," said Doerr.

The Racine County Arson Task Force is inactive investigating the origin of the fire.

Grandma Sue had a caller furnace installed recently, but investigators accidental they're inactive treating the location similar a transgression scene.

Friends person acceptable up a gofundme leafage for Grandma Sue. You tin find it by clicking here.