Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wet weather has made it a slow sart st the Grandfield elevator"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Chadwick House at Grandfield: the last guest has been ushered out."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Farm equipment lies nearly buried on a field near Tipton in southwestern Oklahoma this year."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "For being a national winner 10 years in International Piano Guild competition was Patricia Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Fisher, Frederick , and a freshman in Frederick High School."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "to be installed as president of Frederick's Rotary Club Monday is Ray Duffy."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rhonda Ward, left, and sister Rita."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This small boat, with other debris, blown against the Hallmark Rest Home in Frederick, where most of the city's tornado casualties occurred."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The church building fared even worse than the bus, being reduced to a pile of rubble."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the many homes, businesses and churches damaged in a Monday night tornado in Frederick stands deserted in the midst of a two-block wide swath of destruction wrought by the twister shortly before 8 p.m."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Standing in contrast to the surrounding devastation is this hallway at the Hallmark Villa nursing home in Frederick."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BATTERED HYMNALS were among a handful of salvageable items from the Tesca Baptist Church, reduced to rubble and splinters by the tornado which swept a destructive swath through Frederick Monday night."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Hesper McKinney tries to salvage some belongings from her shattered living room."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Busy little bee could be the nickname of Anita Miller, the daughter of Mrs. Betty Miller, who is working in the office of the Grandfield Publishing Co. during summer vacation. That's among many ventures for the future Oklahoma Baptist University elementary education major - others include: singing in a trio, which also sings on Wichita Falls radio; college correspondence; playing organ and piano; all-conference forward in basketball at Grandfield H.S.; cheerleader; FHA, and much more."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Repair crews at Frederick work to restore telephone and electrical service to the tornado-ravaged city."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Debris inside a room at the Hallmark Villa rest Home in Frederick the extent of damage to the home where the majority of 60 persons were injured when a tornado struck late Monday. Has been estimated at more than $2.5 million."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Only the walls of the gymnasium at Boyd School remain standing after Monday's devastating tornado whipped through Frederick, leaving more than $2.5million damage in its wake."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Awesome, brute force of the Frederick tornado tossed this bus, belonging to the Tesca Baptist Church, nearly two blocks from its parking place."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pickrell, Frederick, search the tornado-strewn rubble of the Hallmark rest Home in that city for the personal effects of a relative."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Parts of central, east and southwest Frederick were virtually destroyed in the Monday night tornado that damaged scores of buildings."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Frederick's hallmark Rest Home stands a collection of twisted beds, deserted wheel chairs and stacked debris in the aftermath of a savage tornado that ripped through the Tillman County city Monday night."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Milton Tomlinson's children Anne and Richard have planned busy summer and winter schedules."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three combines north of Grandfield as the wheat harvest gets under way"