The woman of the woman killed in Tornado speaks to the first alarm 4

St. Louis, Mon (first alarm 4) – Five families mourn this evening after they lost on Friday on Friday. On Sunday, the First Alert 4 learns more about one of the victims.

The seventy -year -old Delois Holmes was a mother, grandmother and great -grandmother. She died in the storms on Friday that swept through North City. Her family first tells four that this loss is inconceivable, to the way it happened. The storm took away the center of this family.

Holmes, a mother of five boys, sits on the Cote Brilliante Ave in North City, a grandmother of nine and a great -grandmother. On Sunday, her family and friends sit in front of the now damaged at home to speak, laugh and eat, but it is what they did at home every Sunday.

“On Sunday we all had to experience how it was, and not only we, their immediate family, their whole family and their friends. They came over just to see them, to hear them … just to feel greeted by her,” said Donnie Holmes, her son.

This Sunday looked very different. Donnie sits in his mother's bedroom. The walls are painted their favorite color purple. One of the walls is missing behind him. He sat down only a few feet where his mother lost her life and tried to look for protection against the storm.

“The work of her life went into this house … and it killed her,” said Holmes.

Donnie says she found his mother next to the steps of her basement. They believe that she was on the way down when she was killed.

“We covered her and stayed out there and waited for emergency services that couldn't even find a way to us because of all the damage. We were sitting out here for hours,” said Holmes.

Now the family mourns the matriarch of her family.

The family collects money for cleaning up the house, hoping to tear it down and build something in Delois Holmes' honor, but also to help the community that she loved so much.

You can find the link to donate here.

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