Grace: Gone forever, taken by a tornado's fury, is a 5-year-old girl called ‘Doctor Cali’

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Kandi Lynn Murphree with her daughters, Cali, left, and Robin. Her son, Cody, is behind them. Cali was killed in the Pilger tornado on Monday.

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2014 1:00 AM
By Erin Grace / World-Herald columnist

Standing in a corner of their basement, 69-year-old Kay Labenz tried to shield her disabled husband as the tornado raged overhead.

The sky roared, windows blew out and concrete blocks fell around them. Kay squeezed her eyes shut and prayed.

Just one block away stood a mobile home with no basement where daughter Kandi Murphree and her three children, son Cody and daughters Calista and Robin, lived.

Well, the two little girls practically lived with Grandma Kay and Grandpa Les.

FULL story at link.