FAYETTE COUNTY, Tenn. — The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office on Friday identified a couple and their daughter who were victims of this week’s deadly storms and tornadoes.
Bascom “Trey” Yager III, 48, was pronounced dead on the scene where a mobile home was overturned on Sweet Road just before 2 a.m. Thursday.
Courtney Yager, his wife, is still hospitalized in critical condition. Their 16-year-old daughter Adalynn died later at a hospital, according to a relative.
The Sheriff’s Dept. declined to identify the daughter.
Their sons Samuel, 20, and Thomas, 12, escaped and were not seriously injured.
According to the Fayette County Emergency Management Agency, a mobile home with a family of five in Fayette County was lifted off the ground after a tornado came through the southeast corner of the county.
The National Weather Service says at least four category EF-3 tornadoes hit the Mid-South Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
On Friday, people who are close to the Yagers tried to salvage what they could for surviving family members.
“They were nice people real sweet people young people,” said a relative, Linda Reece. “They attended our church sometimes more than others, but they attended our little church over here Hickory Grove Baptist they did bible school there one year.”
“I just knew they was real nice every time you’d run into them real nice people,” said Danny Reece.
Robert Williams has known the Yager family for years and says he’s never seen a tornado like the one on Thursday.
“It’s a tragedy very awful thing that happened. News Channel 3 warned us that it was coming this way and to take cover, but a storm of this magnitude there is no cover unless you got a shelter or something,” said Williams.
► A GoFundMe has been set up for the family. Click here to donate.