A couple, their four children and a grandmother were among the victims in Bowling Green.
In the days after a tornado tore a path of destruction through Bowling Green, Ky., Rochelle Finkton held out hope. She was already dealing with the news that the tornado on Dec.10 had killed her sister Rachel Brown, along with Ms. Brown’s husband, Steven Brown, three of their four children and the children’s grandmother, Victoria Smith. One child, Nyssa Brown,13, was unaccounted for, and Ms. Finkton thought that maybe, somehow, her niece was in a hospital somewhere, or had received shelter from the Salvation Army, she said. On Thursday, Ms. Finkton was notified that Nyssa’s body had been found. Reached on Saturday and still overcome with grief, she said she was relieved that the authorities had found her niece, “so that we could have closure. For all of them to go home.” Nyssa Brown was also the final victim to be recovered in Bowling Green. Officials in Kentucky reported 77 fatalities statewide on Friday with just one person still missing after several tornadoes devastated the state a week ago. The storm spawned one single tornado in particular that traveled nearly 164 miles through Kentucky, according to the National Weather Service.
