The Stephens relatives tend to stick together. Several of them live on the same road in the south-central Kentucky farming community of Holland, according to Vonda McPeak, who said her husband is a distant Stephens cousin.
That's why the Stephens name showed up so many times on the list of dead and injured from the ferocious storms that struck the region late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Linda Stephens, 53, and her 2-year-old grandson, Hunter, were killed, and seven other people with that surname -- including an infant and a 1-year-old -- were hurt, according to McPeak and state police.
At another mobile home just a mile or so away, Phyllis "Joy" Dow, 58, and her husband Michael Dow, 50, also were killed, making four deaths in Allen County, state police said.
The county neighbors Macon County and Sumner County, Tennessee, which together saw at least 20 storm deaths that night.
In Muhlenberg County in western Kentucky, Bobby Joe Crick, 71, and his 62-year-old wife, Diane Crick, 62, died with their 40-year-old daughter, Gilda Ann Crick, when the storms hit their mobile home park near Greenville, said Ted Tucker, co-owner of Tucker Funeral Home in Central City.
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