Indiana resident Katie Posten took to social media to find the family photo's owner, after discovering it on her car, amazingly with no other debris around.
, writing:"Walked out to my car in New Albany, IN and found this picture stuck to the window. Undoubtedly from a home that was struck by the tornado that ripped through Kentucky last night. Hoping to find its owners. It looks like it reads, Gertie Swatzell and JD Swatzell 1942, pls RT."
It was Facebook that did the trick. After taking a leap of faith and tagging people she knew with the same surname, Posten was connected with Cole Swatzell—the great-grandson of the woman in the image. Swatzell is from Dawson Springs, Kentucky, a small town which was hit hard by the tornados. Reports suggest a current death toll of 12, with coroner Dennis Mayfield expecting it to increase.
"It's like small potatoes given just the logistics of what they're having to deal with," Posten said."He [Cole] was grateful that we found them and pretty amazed that it traveled that far and stayed intact." Swatzell and Posten are planning to meet later in the week to return the photo, while the Swatzell family attempts to figure out exactly which household it belonged to.
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