Dean Warstler, left, and Alvin Haab took a trip to Mayfield, Ky., to help tornado victims. Photo provided by Alvin Haab.

By Tim Ashley
InkFreeNews

MILFORD — Knowing they simply wanted to help people with pressing needs after the devastating tornado that ripped through Mayfield, Ky., earlier this month, Alvin Haab and Dean Warstler of Milford headed to Mayfield beginning Sunday afternoon.

Haab is a volunteer with the Milford Food Bank and Warstler owns Dean’s Ag Repair in Syracuse. They took water, wipes, food, blankets, pillows and toys on a pickup truck with a trailer hitched to it. They weren’t sure exactly where they needed to take the supplies, which Haab said weighed out to about 8,000 pounds and came from the Milford Food Bank.

While eating breakfast Monday morning at a hotel in Elizabethtown, Ky., where they spent the night, the two overhead a man talking about pastor Micky Fowler in Mayfield. The man was able to connect the two to Fowler and they took the supplies to Fowler’s church, Pryorsburg Independent Methodist Church in Mayfield. The supplies were unloaded there and will be distributed as needed.

Haab and Warstler were both deeply moved by the devastation in Mayfield. The church was allowing people to sleep there and Haab noted Fowler also owns a restaurant that was destroyed by the tornado.

“He (Fowler) was serving food from a cargo trailer,” Haab said.

Warstler and Haab returned home Monday evening.