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• Chris Crable began moving items such as a television, furniture and clothing into this Tanner home just days before the tornado struck. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• Chris Crable searches the rubble of his Tanner home after it was struck on April 27. The home burned in June 2010 and renovations were completed three weeks before the storm. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• A child’s Bible, foreground, sits amid the rubble surrounding a home on Rosie Road in Tanner, which was destroyed by Wednesday’s tornadoes. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• This trailer was flipped upside down in Swan Creek Mobile Home Park during Wednesday’s tornado at Tanner. Trees were uprooted and homes damaged throughout the park. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• The congregation of Jacob’s Ladder Church in Tanner hold services Sunday morning May 1 on the foundation of what was once their church. News Courier/Shannon Kazek

  

• Devastation is widespread on Bridgeforth Road after Wednesday’s tornado. The home of Delores and Ronald Peoples was destroyed and debris covered the ground in the yard. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• Jimmy and Lynda Messer were in Sarasota, Fla., when their home on Rosie Road was struck. Their home was demolished on the same site by the April 3, 1974, tornado. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• Janice and Glen Riddle were killed in their double-wide mobile home nar this overturned rig on Rosie Road when the EF-5 twister struck April 27. They were sheltering the grandchildren they were raising, aged 4, 6, and 9. The children were injured but survived. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• A home on Rosie Road in Tanner. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• Volunteers at Tanner High School distribute food and water to workers and victims. News Courier/Shannon Kazek

  

• Clothes remain in a closet at this home on Stewart Road in Tanner. News Courier/Shannon Kazek

  

• Bonnie Hamric's Christmas decorations are scattered in the rubble of her home on Stewart Road in Tanner. News Courier/Kelly Kazek

  

• A student volunteer from Rogersville Church of Christ helps pile debris at a home on Rose Road. News Courier/Kelly Kazek

  

• The home of Jason and Ann Lewter was destroyed and the home of their son's family next door on Ingram Road was badly damaged. The family — the elder Lewters, Steve and Sheila and their children Kennedy and Austin — took cover in an underground storm shelter. News Courier/Kelly Kazek

  

• The home of Rodney Dempsey on Ingram was demolished. He'd moved back in a few weeks before the April 27 storm with his newlywed wife, Shawn. They took cover in the shelter of their neighbors, Wayne Pitts. News Courier/Shannon Kazek

  

• A Calhoun Community College baseball player clears debris at the home of Bonnie Hamric on Stewart Road. News Courier/Kelly Kazek

  

• Members of the baseball team at Calhoun Community College volunteer their time May 4 to cut trees at homes on Stewart Road. News Courier/Kelly Kazek

  

• A home on Rosie Road. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• Grave markers were laid over and broken at Lakeview United Methodist Church Cemetery Thursday. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• Issac Bass, Vickie Bass and Imogene Beasley pick up salvageable items from the total destruction on Bridgeforth Road. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• Automobiles were destroyed down Bridgeforth Road in Tanner during Wednesday’s storms. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

• The storm shelter beside the home of Ronald and Delores Peoples was the saving grace of more than six people in the Bridgeforth Road Community in Tanner Wednesday as storms wiped out surrounding homes. The shelter was the first thing the Peoples family built on the property after living through the 1974 tornadoes 37 years ago. News Courier/Kim Rynders

  

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