Families of the victims are still processing the terrible toll of the tornado outbreak.
The teenager's body was found on Thursday. Nyssa Brown was the seventh member of her family to die in the tornado that hit Bowling Green last week, and family and neighbors say they are reeling. In Kentucky, Cummins has been gathering items from the debris of his mom's home. The sisters worked at a funeral home and helped others through their grief.
More than 40 tornadoes ripped through a wide area, killing at least 92 people in multiple states. There were 77 deaths in Kentucky.
Some people died during the tornado outbreak.
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According to her friend, Pam Gilbert was going to become a manager at the Kentucky Dollar General store. The type of person who would give you the shirt off his back was the type of person that Gilbert's son,Derek Gilbert, 44, was. Jamey was Gilbert's sister and she helped Langston cope with the death of her fiancée.
The Gilberts and Waggoner were killed by a tornado. Pam Gilbert was a great mother and helped raise her children.
The 65-year-old said she will not be going dancing with her friend.
She said they would have a good time.
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Jenny Beshear Sewell said that Marsha Hall, 72, and Carole Grisham, 80, were referred to as the sisters around the area. Hall and Cummins lived in the same home for years and were often in each other's company. The two people were killed when a tornado ripped through the house.
Cummins said that they took care of each other. It was always the two of them. They were best friends.
Cummins told his aunt and mother that he loved them. He told them to watch the weather on the day of the storm. Hall was told to get Grisham and get in the hallway by the man who was tracking the storm on Facebook.
She said she cleaned out the closet to make sure she got in. Cummins was recalled. She said she loved you. She said she loved my siblings.
Cummins didn't hear back after texting.
Hall was still working at the funeral home, arranging flowers and assisting grieving families. Grisham had worked there in the past.
Hall was always thinking about what a family would need, according to Beshear.
She said it could be finances. We are going to have to do this and that when they show up because the grandmother is in a wheelchair. It was everything.
Beshear Sewell said she was certain that Hall decided not to leave Grisham and seek shelter elsewhere. She said that Hall would pick her grandson up from school even when he was young enough to walk himself, because she didn't want him to get hurt.
Cummins has been sifting through the debris at the home, keeping anything he finds intact. He said he found his mom's purse with the money she had taken out of the bank.
He said that he didn't know how it would feel when he didn't look for something. I think it will hit me.
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Carl Hogan was devoted to his wife of 41 years, and he was looking forward to getting her back home in Kentucky after a stay in a hospital and nursing home.
Fields said that the retired long-haul trucker had settled down in the small town to enjoy his golden years near his kids and the Tradewater River.
The plan was shredded by the tornado. Fields tried to get to her father's home after the twister hit, but was unsuccessful.
I ran up and down his street screaming for him and trying to see if he was under the debris. She wrote that she found his vehicles and that his home was gone.
Fields doesn't want Hogan to be remembered as the guy who died in the tornado. She said that Hogan was a fan of the TV show "Yellowstone" and that he loved to fish. She said Hogan was a fantastic father and his four grandchildren were his world.
Fields said that he was a quiet, private faith. He was a good man.
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Despite the danger, the 86-year-old decided to ride the storm out in his trailer.
The Vermont native settled in the town after serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Campbell. He started two auto repair stations in the area and continued to work on people's cars at a shop next to his home until his death. Guys would come and hang out at the shop, taking advantage of the seating he put out.
He loved people. It is not a high-income town. He would say, "Well, they need their car and they can't afford to pay me so pay me when you can." The town loved him.
He had lost friends in recent years. Tony said his father was ready to leave and was resigned to the danger of the storm.
His son said that his father had an attitude of, "If I'm here tomorrow, great, and if I'm not, I'm not."
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The Washington Post reported that Jacob and Emma Gingerich lived with their five children in a trailer with no running water or electricity. A couple and two of their children were killed when a tornado ripped apart the trailer.
Daniel said that Jacob was a hard worker and honest. Jacob Gingerich had a sawmill.
He wouldn't take a dollar from you. He used everyone fairly.
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As the tornado bore down on their home in Kentucky, a woman grabbed her two sons and hid in a closet.
She told CBS news that the house collapsed around them after she closed the closet door. She said that Alubahi was trapped by the debris and unable to move her head.
She heard nothing from her 3-year-old son. It took several people to pull the mother and children from the rubble, and it was only when she was in the hospital that she learned Jhal'lil had died in her arms.
She said he was something special. I wish I could have saved him.
Julius had no injuries. Alubahi said that he was untouched.
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Lannis Joe Ward and his girlfriend Autumn Kirks had been saving money for months to buy a house. Kirks recalled looking away from Ward for a few seconds only to realize he had vanished after the tornado leveled the building.
The Graves County Coroner identified Ward as one of the people who died in the tornado outbreak.
According to an obituary published by a funeral home, Ward had five sons and two daughters. He is survived by his mother and brother.
Kirks said she tried to explain to her children and Ward that he is no longer alive, but the youngest kids don't understand.
Kirks told MSNBC that her 3-year-old keeps asking to talk to Joe.
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Robert Baldree died in the hospital after the tornado.
Baldree is survived by his wife who was left with virtually nothing by the storm, according to an obituary and public messages posted by a daughter on social media. His other survivors include a daughter, son and three sisters.
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A lot of people rememberJill Monroe as a mom, grandmother, sister and friend. She moved to Kentucky in August to start over.
Monroe was at work at the candle factory when the twister hit. Chris Chrism was told by his co-worker that his mother was trying to protect others when the storm hit.
Monroe and his friend were told that the tornado was close and that they needed to get back to the hallway or the bathroom. She said they got in there after they got into the bathroom. They went to the first stall. The last time I saw your mom she ran into the last stall and took a bunch of people with her. We tried to hold on.
The upcoming holiday will be more difficult because Christmas was one of Monroe's favorite times of the year.
Some of the gifts she got for the kids were recovered by me. We are going to put something on them. We are going to let the kids try to have the day because she would want them to have a picture of her in his lap. Christmas was all about the babies.
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Bobby Spradling Jr., 50, lost his life in the tornado that hit the town of Mayfield, Kentucky, after helping his niece through the toughest time of her life.
Rayo told The New York Times that she was taken into her own home by her former employer after her mother died in high school. She was invited by Rayo to go on a family vacation to Garden of the Gods after she graduated.
She said she would remember how kind he was and how he helped her through the hardest time.
According to an obituary, his parents and five sisters died before him, and he was survived by a son and daughter and two brothers.
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Claude Mitchell did more than just laundry at the nursing home. He would stop by the residents rooms and say something to make them happy.
Claude was the greatest joy in her day when he would come in and talk to her for a few minutes. I can't tell you how she lit up when he came in.
Residents and staff at the nursing home released balloons into the air in memory of Mitchell. The 65-year-old laundry worker was killed in the storms that destroyed homes and buildings in the area where he lived.
Lauren Lloyd said that Mitchell had worked at the nursing home for six years. She said that he would stop by the nurses station and other gathering places to ask co-workers how their day was going.
Lloyd said that it was a deep loss for them to lose someone with such a bright personality. The staff is taking it very hard.
Mitchell would often bring his gold necklaces and bracelets to her mother, as well as bringing her candy bars and chatting with her in her room.
Buckner said he can't say enough good about him. He was never in a bad mood. Everybody seemed to be in a better mood when he was there.
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Six people were killed when a tornado struck an Amazon warehouse.
Morrow hoped to become a household name through business ventures, including car washes, grocery stores and laundries, according to an online appeal started by his fiancée. She wrote that he wanted to build housing for low-income families.
She said that he wanted to make life better for his family, friends and community.
The law firm will be representing relatives of a St. Louis native who was killed in the tornado and will be looking for answers about whether employees at the Amazon facility had enough warning.
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Nyssa Brown used to ride her four-wheeler through Timothy Venetta's backyard. The teenager's body was found in a wooded area. She was the seventh member of her family to die in the tornado.
Venetta told WZTV in Nashville, Tennessee that she can't imagine a family being gone in the blink of an eye. She and Timothy Venetta lived on the same street as the Brown family.
The girl's parents, three siblings, and a grandmother all died in the tornado. The children and their grandmother were identified by the coroner. Rachel Brown's name is listed on social media as "Rachael", but her husband Steven Brown is identified as 35.
The family lived on a street where 12 people died, including five relatives from another family and eight children. People who survived are grieving around ruins that include children's toys.
Rochelle said her sister enjoyed being a mother.
She loved them kids to the moon.
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Most of the people who knew her at the candle factory considered her a friend because she worked in so many different areas, and that was where the tornado hit.
The Washington Post reported that Smith died with one of her friends at the factory. She told the newspaper that she found Smith amid the rubble after she hurried to the site.
Hand begged God not to take her and held her hand. I said, "I got you, please, please."
Smith and Bobbett worked at the factory. Dozens of people have posted messages on social media.
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According to his obituary, Scott spent his spare time playing basketball, shooting guns, souping up trucks and listening to loud music.
Scott was killed at his home in Kentucky when tornadoes struck the Midwest and South.
Scott had a job with a local contractor remodeling kitchens and bathrooms, as well as building custom furniture and other construction projects, according to his obituary in the Bowling Green Daily News.
He loved getting his friends together and was the life of the party. There was no such thing as a stranger to the friend of the man.
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The weather began to turn bad before Hebb and her co-worker spent the day delivering packages. They went back to the warehouse in Illinois.
Jaeira Hargrove told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that they were used to weather warnings.
We were talking. We heard the noise. It felt like the floor was moving. We got closer to each other. We all started screaming.
The Hebb family's online fundraiser said the woman was beloved and left behind a 1-year-old son and other relatives.
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Jeff and his wife, Jen, lived in Kentucky and the Gulf coast of Florida.
A couple from Kentucky was identified by a county coroner as one of the people who died in the tornado outbreak.
According to his obituary in The Messenger newspaper of Madisonville, Kentucky, Jeff Eckert was the founder of J.K. Eckert & Co., which published more than 400 books for some of the larger publishing houses. He was a small aircraft pilot and played music in several bands.
According to her obituary, she had worked in an orthodontist's office for 15 years. She loved to host cookouts with her family and friends.
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Sandy still clings to her phone, anxious for any news on a brother-in-law who is missing after a duck hunting trip in the western part of the state.
The Cypress Point Resort is a popular destination for hunters and fishermen due to its close location to Reelfoot Lake. A father and son were sucked into the tornado as it ripped through the building in the middle of the night. Their bodies were found a few feet away from the debris and trees.
Sandy told The Associated Press that Steve could build a house from a matchbook. You couldn't go to Walmart with him without a lot of people stopping him. He was the kid you dreamed of having.
Jamie Hall, her brother-in-law, is missing and is also a part of the hunting group.
First responders, family members and residents have all jumped in to help find him, but no progress has been made.
The world has been shattered. Each time I hear the phone ring, I am terrified. My brother-in-law was a gentle man.
The funeral for Steve and Grayson will take place in Florida.
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Jenny Bruce was elected to the school board in the small school district in Kentucky where she had graduated from high school last year.
Leonard Whalen said that Jenny started out driving a bus and worked her way up to finance director. She was kind of a lady.
Bruce hid inside her home when a tornado destroyed it on Friday and Saturday. He said neighbors found her. The coroner confirmed her death.
Bruce had worked for the school system for four decades before retiring. She ran for a seat on the school board in 2020 without opposition, thanks to the help of Whalen.
Whalen said that Bruce was universally liked in her years working in the school district's administrative office, never saying an unkind word about anyone and bringing cookies and other treats for co-workers to share.
She was a graduate of the school. She loved children.
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Kevin was fond of spending time with his family and heole the show and the hearts of his grandchildren whenever he was around, his family said. He had a close relationship with his co-workers at Amazon.
Six people were killed when an Amazon warehouse was struck. The roof of the warehouse caved in as the sides of the warehouse collapsed inward. Rescuers had to pull people out of the rubble.
A co-worker of Dickey told his daughter that he was trying to get people to safety and make sure his drivers were ok. She said that the family would expect him to work hard.
Dad talked a lot about his co-workers. The family said that he had a good relationship with many.
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Douglas Koon and his family were in a bathroom with his mother-in-law as the storms approached. The family was thrown around and tossed in the air by the tornado as it hit the house. The couple put their baby in a car seat to protect her, and she appeared to be fine on Saturday.
The baby had seizures by Sunday and doctors noticed a brain bleed after she was taken to the hospital. Koon said in a Facebook post that she had a stroke.
The family posted that the baby had died.
Koon told The Associated Press in a text message that he was struggling to process everything he was going through.
Koon's family and his mother-in-law, who lost her home, are being helped by a family member.
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When Lisa Taylor left her job as a florist at the same family-owned shop in Memphis, Tennessee, in October to join the Transportation Security Administration, she did so after 14 years of working there. The co-workers at Rachel's flowers wished her good luck with balloons.
Taylor, 54, stayed in touch with her friends at the flower shop, making plans to return part time over the holidays to make some extra money. The power came back on at the shop after violent storms passed through, and then the phone rang. Taylor's boyfriend called with sad news. Taylor was killed as she slept when a tree fell on her roof.
Taylor had just gotten started on her new adventure and was taken by someone, according to her former florist, Angie Morton.
Taylor, a single mother of two children in their 20s, took a new government job for higher wages and more stability, friends said.
Morton said that she had a creative spark that made her a natural when it came to working with flowers, whether she was helping grieving families design funeral arrangements or using bits and pieces of broken, castoff jewelry to add some custom sparkle to high school girls' prom corsages.
Morton said that she liked to bling everything up. She would make beautiful things out of the trash. If she found an earring in a store that didn't have a matching pair, she would think she knew who that person would be perfect for her corsage.
She was the only storm death in the county that includes Memphis, according to the deputy emergency management administrator.
The owner of the flower shop was helping plan the funeral. She said Taylor's daughter wanted a sea of purple flowers to match her mother's favorite color.
Customers were dropping by the shop to leave notes. One of them said that Lisa was a light in a dark world.
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According to her great-aunt, Annistyn was an outgoing and energetic 9-year-old who loved swimming, dancing and cheerleading.
Hooker and the girl had become close over the past four years and Hooker offered the girl support during doctor's visits and blood draws required by a rare liver condition that still didn't keep the southeastern Missouri girl from participating in activities.
A group of people, including Annistyn's parents and two younger sisters, took shelter in a windowless bathroom in their new home. The girls' mom sent Hooker a photo of the three of them smiling, 9-year-old Annistyn holding her favorite doll, to prove that they had gotten to the family's safe space.
Hooker said a tornado splintered the home, carrying the family members through the air into a field where first responders found them. The others were injured.
Hooker said Annistyn was a special angel and that she was happy in her outfits and makeup for cheer and learning new dances. In front of Hooker, she did cartwheels and splits.
She could do the splits all the time, and she would just laugh. She loved dancing.
Hooker teaches gifted students at the same elementary school as Rackley teaches kindergarten in Caruthersville, which is located next to the Mississippi River.
When Annistyn was 2 months old, her parents learned that she had a rare disease that made it hard to fight off illness.
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Golden Wes Hembrey died when the nursing home where he lived was destroyed by a tornado.
Hembrey said that his uncle had been in the nursing home since 2016 because of Alzheimer's disease. He remembered that his uncle was always with his family.
His nephew said that he was outgoing. He would be playing in the yard with us. Don't make him angry. He was mad when he was mad.
His niece said he liked cutting up and telling jokes.
The Hembreys said that their brother had visited his brother the day before the tornado and found him to be in good health.
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The deputy jailer was at the candle factory when the tornado hit. His boss said that Daniel was focused on the prisoners when he was killed.
George Workman, Graves County Jailer, said that Daniel had worked at the jail for a few years before being rehired a few months ago. The seven inmates that Daniel was overseeing at the factory Friday night were part of a brand-new work program and had just begun their jobs three days earlier.
After the storm, the inmates told Workman's deputies that Daniel had helped them through a doorway and against a wall in an interior part of the plant. Workman said that the last person through the door was Daniel, who vanished suddenly.
He was still trying to get them to safety. Workman said that it hit when it hit. It takes a tremendous person to give up their life for someone else. He was doing it for the right reasons.
Workman said that all seven of the inmates in Daniel's care survived, with two of them suffering broken legs.
Mark Saxton said that Daniel was from the area that was devastated by the storm.
Saxton said that he loved his community. He was a great father. Everyone who met him loved him. He is the type of person you want to be associated with.
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A fellow judge said that Brian Crick was known for his sound judgement when it came to solving problems.
Crick was a district judge for Muhlenberg and McLean counties who handled criminal cases, traffic court and juvenile cases. He said he had known Crick since 2005. He was in private practice before taking the bench.
Many of the defendants who came before him weren't represented by attorneys, and Crick was very good about seeing to it that their rights were protected. He had a common- sense approach. He was well-versed in how to handle cases and how to talk to people.
He was killed when the storm hit his family's home. He is survived by a wife and three children, all of whom made it through the storm without major injuries. He was a great husband and father to his children and wife. They were the number one to him.
Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John Minton said in a statement that they were especially sad to get the news. His family is in our prayers, as is his community and the court system.
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Two of June Pennington's children said that the Manila, Arkansas, resident was devoted to her four children and nine grandchildren and had a particular soft spot for animals.
Pennington was working as an assistant manager at the Dollar General store in Arkansas when it was hit.
Christie Pennington said that her mother didn't love anything as much as her kids and grandkids. She was loved by everyone.
David Benefield said his mother was 14 when he was born.
She was raising a child. He said they were like best friends. How close you become is crazy.
Benefield said that her children remember her as someone who would do anything they asked her to do. June Pennington wanted to spend as much time with her children as possible after they were grown.
Christie Pennington said her mother had many animals.
She said that if there was an animal in need of a home, they would take it in.
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A sweet and typical grandmother, Ollie Borgmann, 84, had lived in her home in Defiance, Missouri for decades.
The house she shared with her husband, Vernon, was destroyed by a tornado on Friday night, as well as that of a neighbor in the town.
Mark Borgmann told the Post-Dispatch that his brother was on the phone with their father when the line went dead. Vernon Borgmann woke up in a field surrounded by debris. Mark Borgmann said that he will be okay.
She was awake when she was found. She died at the hospital.
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The storm killed a man at a company facility in southwestern Illinois, who had been working at Amazon for more than a year.
There were five workers who died at the facility.
After graduating from high school, Cope joined the Navy and was an avid biker and video game player. His sister said that he had a special place in his heart for his dog.
He would go out of his way for anyone.
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