Franklin County, News, Phil Campbell, Red Bay, Russellville
 By  Kellie Singleton Published 
8:36 am Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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 a listing of those killed during last 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:

•Donna Berry, 52,Double Springs

•Nila Black, 68, Phil Campbell

•Zan Reese Black, 46, Phil Campbell

•Jeff Cotham, 35, Phil Campbell

•Jack Cox, 78, Phil Campbell

•Charlene Crochet, 41, Phil Campbell

•Don Gentry, 63, Phil Campbell

•Patricia Gentry, 50, Phil Campbell

•Donald Ray Heaps, 57, Phil Campbell

•Lester Hood, 81, Phil Campbell

•James Robert Keller, 53, Phil Campbell

•Ricky Ethan Knox, 10, Phil Campbell

•Amy Crystal Leclere, 33, Phil Campbell

•Jay Leclere, 45, Phil Campbell

•Dagmar Leyden, 56, Phil Campbell

•Edgar Mojica, 8, Phil Campbell

•Kelli Marie Thorn Morgan, 24, East Franklin

•Michael Alan Morgan, 32, East Franklin

•Martha Lou Pace, 64, Phil Campbell

•Claudia Mojica Palucios, 38, Phil Campbell

•Edna Lucille Nix, 89, Phil Campbell

•Georgia Scribner, 83, Phil Campbell

•Jack E. Tenhaeff, 67, Phil Campbell

•Sonya Black Trapp, 48, Phil Campbell

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

•Gerri Waller, Phil Campbell

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