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Mayor of Tornado-Ravaged City Rolling Fork Is Also Its Funeral Director

‘IT WILL TAKE TIME’

Eldridge Walker is supporting residents of Friday’s disaster in more ways than one.

Matt Young
Matt Young 

Night Editor

An aerial view of the wreckage in the town after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
Cheney Orr/Reuters
Matt Young

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