Wheaton woman says bin Laden death won't bring daughter back

There has been no closure for Margaret Sauer.

For nearly a decade, the Wheaton woman has been living with the pain of losing her 48-year-old daughter, Sue Sauer, who was among those killed in the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks of 2001.

“You don't ever expect to lose a child,” Margaret Sauer said Monday. “I don't care what their age is.”

And just because the mastermind behind the attacks is dead, she said it doesn't lessen her grief. In some ways, the news has made it worse.

“It just brings it all back and stirs everything up again,” Margaret Sauer said. “It doesn't make it go away.”

Sue Sauer of Chicago grew up in Wheaton and graduated from Wheaton Central High School in 1970. As a risk manager with Marsh & McLennan Co., she often went to New York on business.

Margaret Sauer said her daughter was attending a meeting on the 99th floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center when a hijacked plane slammed into the building.

“You don't ever forget,” she said. “Nothing will ever bring closure.”