Debbie Irwin met her husband, Richard, on the square in Dalton, Georgia, 27 years ago.
“We dated about two weeks,” Irwin said. “Then we got married.”
Richard was good to her. He was never mean, he was nice to her kids and always treated her with respect. He showed her unconditional love from day one.
“They were best friends,” said Brandy Moorehead, Irwin’s daughter. “Some families argue and maybe hit hard spots. They never did. They could just sit in a room together and be happy. The honeymoon stage never really left.”
One year ago, almost to the day, Debbie and Richard remember talking to their neighbors about a tornado warning being lifted as they huddled around the front yards of their mobile homes in northern Murray County.