Tammy Riden hugs her grandfather, Daniel Wagner, Wednesday afternoon at the dedication ceremony for the newly-built home Wagner shares with his wife, Geraldine Caudill. The couple’s home was destroyed in the tornados that swept through the area on April 27, 2011, and was rebuilt by volunteers.HELPING HANDSThese are just a few of the organizations that have partnered with the Bradley County Long Term Recovery Organization to help build homes for tornado victims:• United Way of Bradley County• Habitat for Humanity• Bradley Baptist Association• Church of God – Men and Women of Action• The Salvation Army• United Methodist Volunteers in Mission• Whirlpool• Cleveland State Community CollegeSource: Bradley County Long Term Recovery Organzation
For two decades, the Yarber family lived on a sprawling 20 acres off Leadmine Valley Road in Cleveland, Tenn.
With two houses and two trailers on the property, the parents, siblings and children passed easily among one another’s homes and gathered every week for Sunday dinner.
The tornado that struck last April didn’t just scatter their four homes in pieces across the fields. It scattered their family, splitting them up into an ever-shifting list of medical centers and temporary housing around the region.
The property – where the storms killed 43-year-old Lisa Pack – remained in shambles for months.