Funerals Follow Deadly Twisters

Penny Hall and Kevin Taylor planned to be together in marriage. Instead, they were united in death, buried side by side, a week after they perished in a fierce night of tornadoes. More than 300 mourners came to the funeral for the couple and Hall’s parents, Ed and Debra, who also were killed when a twister demolished the family’s mobile home early Monday morning. Hall’s 5-year-old daughter, Ashley Himes, the only survivor in the house, is hospitalized in stable condition with a ruptured spleen and bruised lung. Another funeral service was held in nearby St. Cloud for 9-month-old Niles David Bourke, who was sucked from his father’s arms and dumped 300 feet from his mobile home.