Susan Ragsdale, 'Face and Voice of Lake Zurich' Retires
Deputy village clerk will head to sunny Florida for retirement.
Lake Zurich resident and public servant Susan T. Ragsdale is retiring, today, from her role as executive assistant/deputy village clerk. She has served the village for 32 years. In a proclamation honoring Ragsdale for her service, Village President Suzanne Branding called her the 'face and voice of Lake Zurich." Ragsdale grew up in Lake Zurich and was part of the first class to graduate from the current Lake Zurich High School. She started working at village hall as an interm and was hired full-time as the first village administrator’s assistant. At that time, village staff worked from 61 W. Main St. with the police and all departments in one building. Lake Zurich Patch did a short Q&A with Ragsdale: What is the highlight or a …
Nancy Loomis Schroeder
9:38 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Lake Zurich will surely miss Susan (Burda) Ragsdale. I will always remember her as Susan Burda since we were good friends from Seth Paine to May Whitney Jurior High School to the old Lake Zurich High School to the new school. Susan has been the glue that holds the village together from from one administration to the next and has always been available to the Ela Historical Society for any projects… more ›