Larry and Edward Lee spent Sunday morning picking through the fragments that remained of a trailer home where their sister and her daughter-in-law were killed just before midnight. “We’re trying to clear the road so trucks can get through and also see if we can salvage any of their belongings — that’s about all we can do at this point,” said Larry, shaking his head in disbelief, as Edward found a battered Barbie doll and added it to a pile of eight plastic dinosaurs and an upended pink bicycle. Larry’s son owns the rural plot near West 470 Road and North 426 Road in between Claremore and Pryor.
A couple of years ago, their relatives returned from Washington State and rented a single-wide mobile home there to live in. “My son called them about 15 minutes before and told them it was coming their way,” Larry said. “The next time they spoke, my nephew said it blew him off the porch and knocked him out and when he came to, everyone was gone.
“He had been trying to get them in the cellar, but it was too late.” Larry and Edward identified the two dead as their sister, Linda Lee, 62, and her daughter-in-law Donna Lee, who was in her 30s. Their adult nephew and his three children who were home at the time were injured and are at a Tulsa hospital, they said.
Larry said their sister often sent cell phone photos of the squirrels she like to watch on the property, and she enjoyed walking her three grandchildren she lived with down their long gravel drive to catch the.