Jun 3, 2008 7:05 am US/Central
Funeral Held For Boy Killed In Hugo Tornado
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. (AP) ―
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Visitation is Sunday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and again on Monday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Eagle Brook Church in White Bear Lake. (File)
Gerard and Christina Prindle
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 May 25. 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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