Hugo Tornado

Funeral today for 2-year old tornado victim

by Tom Weber, Minnesota Public Radio

A funeral will be held Monday afternoon for two-year old Nathanial Prindle, who was killed in last weekend's tornado in Hugo.

St. Paul, Minn. — The house where the Prindle family lived was completely destroyed by the tornado. Debris from the house was sprayed across the family's backyard and into a pond behind their house.

Nathanial Prindle was found in that pond after the storm, and efforts to resuscitate him failed. He's the only person who died during the tornado. Marilyn MacLennan, 62, died last week in Hugo during the clean-up.

There was a visitation Sunday for Nathaniel Prindle at Eagle Brook Church in White Bear Lake. There will be another brief visitation Monday before the 3 p.m. funeral.

Nathaniel's 4-year-old sister, Annika, is still hospitalized with injuries.