The Indiana toddler who was whisked into the air and deposited alive in a field by the monster storm that killed her whole family died Sunday.
Angel Babcock, 14 months, had suffered grave head and neck injuries and was on life support.
“Angel has been reunited with her parents,” her grandfather, Jack Brough, said in a statement read by hospital staff. “All of us should look to God.”
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Brough told the Louisville, Ky., Courier Journal that the baby died surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins after the family decided to remove life support.
“We didn’t want her to suffer anymore,” he said. “It was time for her to be with her parents and her brother and sister.”
The Indiana baby’s initial survival made headlines around the world. It had been the sole bright spot in the devastation left by the savage swarm of tornadoes that demolished whole towns and killed at least 39 people in the Midwest Friday.
Calls poured in to Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky., from well-wishers across the globe.
The family was last seen by a neighbor who tried to save them lying face-down in the hallway of their trailer home, holding hands and praying.
Neighbor Jason Miller, 31, was picked up by the twister along with the family and all six were tossed across the road. Miller survived with broken bones.
The day before she died, Angel’s mother, 20-year-old Moriah Brough, uploaded pictures of her three kids to Facebook for the first time.
The young mom added a quote that was sadly prophetic: “Live every day at your best advantage cause at any time it can be taking away.”
Angel was found in a field near her New Pekin, Ind., home after the twister killed her mom, her dad, 21-year-old Joseph Babcock, her 2-year-old brother, Jaydon, and her 2-month-old sister, Kendall.
Initial reports that Angel flew 10 miles were mistaken.
Family friend Sherry Young recounted how the storm scattered the family.
“Kendall was a month and a half old and was found in her car seat upside down. Jayden was 2 years old, and he was found under the rubble,” Young told WXYZ-TV in Michigan.
“Joseph was found on the opposite side of the road from his house. Moriah was found underneath a tree,” she said.
“Angel was found out in the middle of the field all alone.”
As many as 90 tornadoes touched down Friday in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio - making it the largest March tornado outbreak in history, according to the Weather Service.
“Hell was what happened here. That’s the only way to describe it,” a shellshocked resident of Henryville, Ind., told the Weather Channel after two enormous twisters rampaged through the town, one after the other, wiping it off the map.
The twisters ripped a scar across the heartland, flipping buses, exploding houses and tossing two police cruisers into City Hall in West Liberty, Ky.
One of the storms that hit Henryville registered EF-4 on the Fujita scale that measures tornadic force and packed 175 mph winds. It stayed on the ground for more than 50 miles, disintegrating everything in its path.
Survivors Michelle Friedly, 41, and her teenage daughter huddled in a bathtub saying “I love you” over and over to each other as the storm ripped their Henryville house apart around them.
“It sounds just like a freight train, just like they tell you it does,” Friedly told the News and Tribune of Jeffersonville, Ind. “I knew I was going to die.”
Teri Kleopfer of Chelsea, Ind., said her house was picked up by the storm and dropped more than 100 feet away.
"It's kind of like the 'Wizard of Oz,'” she told WTHR-TV.
“There's nothing left but the front porch and some concrete blocks.”
Kleopfer wasn’t in the house: a schoolbus driver, she was rushing kids to safety inside the Chelsea General Store when the twister was demolishing her home.
Her neighbors lost their home too - but much more as well.
Amanda Jackson was holding her 4-year-old son Davlin when the storm hit, Kleopfer said.
"The way I understand it, the storm ripped him out of her arms. He was a little fella, he wasn't very big," she said.
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