3 June 2008
Funeral Held for 2-Year-Old Killed in Hugo Tornado
Hugo Minnesota USA - A 2-year-old boy who was
killed when a tornado tore through Hugo was laid to rest in a country cemetery his family chose because freight trains regularly rumble
past.
The Canadian Pacific Railway had two locomotives and a caboose waiting on the tracks just south of the graveyard. When the service
concluded, and dozens of orange and white helium balloons had been released, the bright-red train and brown caboose slowly
rumbled past the grave of Nathaniel Prindle, who loved choo-choo trains. The engineer saluted Nathaniel with a long blast
from the train whistle.
Nathaniel drowned when the tornado lifted him and dropped him into a nearby pond 25 May 2008. His parents, Gerard
"Jerry" and Christina Prindle, and 4-year-old sister, Annika, were trapped in the rubble.
Annika remained in critical condition Monday. Gerard Prindle attended his son's funeral at Eagle Brook Church in White Bear Lake in a
wheelchair. At the cemetery, members of the Hugo Fire Department carried him to the gravesite.
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