Twenty-seven Franklin County citizens perished in the tornadoes of April 27, 2011: Donna Renee Berry; Nila and Zan Reese Black; Jeffrey Dewight Cotham; Jack Cox; Charlene Crochet; Donald and Prtricia Ann Gentry; Donald Ray Heaps; Lester Hood; James Robert Keller Jr.; Linda Frye Knight; Rickey Ethan Кnох; Amy and Jay W. Leclere; Damgar Leyden; Claudia and Edgar Mojica; Kelli Thorn Morgan; Mickael "Mike" Morgan; Edna Lucille Bradley Nix; Martha Lou Pace; Georgia Scribner; Jack Tenhaeff; Sonya Collette Black Trapp; Carroll Dern "C.D." Waller; and Geraldine "Gerri" Waller.