On April 26, 1991, a tornado took the lives of Gladys Maness, Robert Maness, Robert Meninger, Besse Temple, Kathy Sargent, Denise Peterson, Joseph Marks, Joseph Bobbitt, Ron Kanavy Sr., Ronnie Kanavy Jr., Elsie Kemper, Ruby Crawford, and Betty Sanders, and local volunteers contributed their services to the reconstruction effort afterward.