In Lone Grove, residents still bear twister’s scars

 
BY RON JACKSON    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: February 10, 2010

LONE GROVE — Signs of the Feb. 10, 2009, tornado are hard to recognize in Lone Grove.

The mangled trailer homes are gone. The debris has been scraped from the land. Splintered trees have been uprooted and hauled away. Nothing remains but the emotional scars.

photo - Top, right: A destroyed mobile home is shown as other mobile homes across the road still are standing at the Bar-K Mobile Home Park in Lone Grove on Feb. 11, 2009.   above photo By Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman; Top, right photo BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN archive
Top, right: A destroyed mobile home is shown as other mobile homes across the road still are standing at the Bar-K Mobile Home Park in Lone Grove on Feb. 11, 2009. above photo By Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman; Top, right photo BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN archive

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Twister’s toll

In the aftermath of the Feb. 10, 2009, Lone Grove tornado, there were ...

8 lives lost


• Gary Vaughn

Boyd Jr., 39.


• Susan Gail

Fambrough, 54.


• William Vincent Fambrough, 48.


• Molly Cheryl Hutchinson, 53.


• Donna Lee

McGarvey, 54.


• Trevor William

Kelii Morgan, 30.


• Timothy David Nevill, 36.


• William Clinton Wheat Sr., 78

3,006

Tons of debris left in its wake.

147

Homes destroyed.

27

Fire departments that responded.

Source: City of

Lone Grove

Remembering

A Day of Remembrance program begins at 7 p.m. today at the Lone Grove High School gymnasium to honor the tornado victims and the volunteers who responded to the tragedy. The event is open to the public and organized by the Lone Grove Ministerial Alliance and the volunteer organization RESCO (Recovery Effort of South Central Oklahoma).

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