Published 1 year ago

High tornado death toll in Mississippi like losing family

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At least 21 people in Mississippi and a man in Alabama perished as menacing storms trekked across the Deep South. The Pierces were among 13 people who died in Sharkey County, in western Mississippi. April Johnson was a hardworking, loving kind who would go out of her way to help people, a cousin says.

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The Independent

High tornado death toll in Mississippi like losing family

Friends and neighbors say retirees Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado dropped a semi-truck onto their home like a bomb

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

Daughter: Mississippi tornado victim was ‘beautiful soul’

Queen’terica Jones found her mother's lifeless body after a tornado slammed into the rural town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Jones describes her mother, Erica Moore, as a “beautiful soul" and

1 year ago·United States

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Washington Times

High tornado death toll in Mississippi like losing family

Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet, peaceful life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado swept up a neighbor's semi-truck and dropped it onto their brick home like a bomb, killing the married couple.

1 year ago·United States

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KRDO

High tornado death toll in Mississippi like losing family

By ROBERT BUMSTEAD and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet, peaceful life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado swept up a neighbor’s semi-truck and dropped it onto their brick home like a bomb, killing the married couple. A retired welder, Lonnie Pierce was fond of hunting and bass fishing, friends and neighbors said. Melissa Pierce volunteered for a local Christian c…

1 year ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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Winnipeg Free Press

High tornado death toll in Mississippi like losing family

ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet, peaceful life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado swept up a neighbor’s semi-truck and dropped it […]

1 year ago·Winnipeg, Canada

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MY Northwest

High tornado death toll in Mississippi like losing family

ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet, peaceful life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado swept up a neighbor’s semi-truck and dropped it onto their brick home like a bomb, killing the married couple. A retired welder, Lonnie Pierce was fond of hunting and bass fishing, friends and neighbors said. Melissa Pierce volunteered for a local Christian charity that operates a small thrift store. “They were goo…

1 year ago·Tacoma, United States

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