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(8 Feb 2008) HEADLINE: Ark. mourners remember family killed by tornado
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CAPTION: Three caskets, and the grief that came with them, barely fit into a small Baptist church in Russellville, Arkansas, as mourners remembered a couple and their 10-year-old daughter killed in Tuesday's storms. (Feb. 8)
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THE PAIN AND GRIEF INSIDE THIS SMALL CHURCH IN RUSSELLVILLE ARKANSAS WAS ALMOST UNBEARABLE FOR THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF JIMMY, DANA AND EMMY CHERRY…
THE THREE DIED TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN A TORNADO TORE THROUGH THEIR HOME.

(SOT) STACIE KIZER
"I've got a lifetime, 48 years of memories I loved em all we're gonna miss em terribly such a shock.."
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OVER THE YEARS REVEREND RON KAUFFMAN HAS PRESIDED OVER HUNDREDS OF FUNERALS, BUT NONE AS EMOTIONAL AS THIS ONE..

(SOT) REV. RON KAUFFMAN/PASTOR
This is the most difficult thing I've ever had to face a family of 3 young one as young as Emmy love em and encourage the family
(VO)
AND THE FAMILY IS GETTING SUPPORT, FRIDAY THEY THANKED THE COMMUNITY FOR CIRCLING THE WAGONS AS THEY TRY TO COPE..
(SOT)
You have to pick up and go on, and we're trying our best to do that we got a whole big family out here to take care of..
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IN ALL 59 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN DOZENS OF TORNADOES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE U.S. INCLUDING THE CHERRY'S WHO STAYED HOME TO TRY AND CALM THEIR HORSES DURING THE STORM…

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