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Hospital for a month. Weighing 100 pounds when she was injured, she left the hospital weighing only 68 pounds. The lockjaw contracted all the muscles in her body and left her temporarily unable to walk, as well as talk.
She says today, “The whole time I was in the hopsital I didn’t think about dying. I just wanted to go home.” The nurses encouraged her high spirits by writing on the medical chart “can go out and play in the yard.” Mr'S. Graves credits her survival to her strong desire to return to school and the lifestyle she had known in pre-tornado days.
Today she lives with her husband, George Graves, in Madison County.
The school building which replaced the destroyed one was converted into a residence after the students were consolidated at the Sperryville School. It is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Johnson.
A tree standing down the hill from the school still holds a screen from the schoolhouse in its branches, placed there by the tornado.
For Louise Jenkins Alther the tornado signaled an end to school days. She married Jonas Alther and looks forward to the celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary this June.
Thurman Hawkins, brother of victim Marshall Hawkins, lives in Miami Beach, Florida and is considering retirement in Rappahannock County. Mrs. Pauline Bruce remembers her brother, Marshall, fondly as a somewhat mischievous, fun-loving youngster.
Even today thunderstorms or dark clouds bring back Tornado of ’29 memories to the survivors of this oncein-a-lifetime disaster. (The loan of pictures of destruction in Woodville by Mr. Harry Stephenson is gratefully acknowledged.)
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