Vigil planned in Tisdale to honour Gosling family
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Everyone is welcome to come to a candlelight vigil Wednesday night in Tisdale to remember Latasha Gosling and her three kids who were murdered last week.
Two buses full of friends and family are coming from Nipawin and there’s also a plan to stream it online for those who can’t make it. Candles will be handed out to everyone who attends.
Tim Funk is one of the people helping to plan the vigil. He is Gosling’s cousin and also started the GoFundMe page which has collected close to $60,000 in donations. He said all the heartwarming comments on the page mean more to the family as they mourn.
As the family comes together, they’ve been able to look past the tragedy and share fond memories of the Goslings.
“The other day we were able to laugh,” said Funk. “It was very therapeutic. It’s always therapeutic to laugh.”
The money raised online will go towards funeral costs. Because so much has been collected, the rest will be put away and saved for Gosling’s six-month-old daughter who was spared in the murder-suicide. The fund would be saved until the girl is an adult.
Troubles are not over for the family yet. Funk explained the girl is with the family of man believed responsible for the killings, Steven O’Shaughnessy, who took his own life. There is now a legal battle over which side of her family gets custody.
“We have a lawyer who’s graciously doing a pro bono so we are going to be fighting to get her back in this house – not in my house but back on this side of the family,” said Funk.
There may not be many original photos from Gosling’s Facebook page at Wednesday’s vigil. She had thousands of photos and videos posted to her profile for her family to see, but Funk said O’Shaughnessy deleted her profile and now those captured memories are lost.
“You put your video up of your little girl dancing at your recital and everyone gets to see it as if you were there, but no you can’t now, because he deleted it,” said Funk.
The family is now working with Facebook to see if any of that content can be retrieved.
