Remembering those taken in Wednesday’s deadly storm

Though the clean-up will take months, and the re-building may take years, a community must now deal with the loss of family, friends, co-workers, classmates, church congregation members and neighbors.

The following is an incomplete list of those killed during Wednesday’s horrific tornado outbreak.

As we all move away from the rubble and debris, as a county, we can never forget those whose lives were taken in just a matter of seconds:

• Donald Ray Heaps, 57, Phil Campbell

• Martha Lou Pace, Phil Campbell

• Edna Lucille Nix, Phil Campbell

• Kelli Marie Thorn Morgan, 24, East Franklin

• Michael Alan Morgan, 32, East Franklin

• Claudia Mojica Palucios, Phil Campbell

• Edgar Mojica, 8, Phil Campbell

• Ricky Ethan Knox, 10, Phil Campbell

• Gerri Waller, Phil Campbell

• Carroll Dean “C.D.” Waller, Phil Campbell

• Nila Black, 68, Phil Campbell

• Zan Reese Black, 46, Phil Campbell

• Sonya Black Trapp, 48, Phil Campbell

• Charlene Crochet, Phil Campbell

• Jay Leclere, Phil Campbell

• Amy Crystal Leclere, Phil Campbell

• James Robert Keller Jr., Phil Campbell

• Don Gentry, Phil Campbell

• Patricia Gentry, Phil Campbell

• Donna Berry, Phil Campbell

• Jack Cox, Phil Campbell

• Georgia Scribner, 83, Phil Campbell