BROKEN but UNBOWED

Town digs out after deadly tornado June 21

REGION RALLIES AROUND MATADOR

  • HELPING HAND Volunteers loaded supplies at the school bus barn in Matador, which served as a distribution point for aid and. LIZ ADAMS PHOTO
    HELPING HAND Volunteers loaded supplies at the school bus barn in Matador, which served as a distribution point for aid and. LIZ ADAMS PHOTO
  • HISTORICAL MARKER for the Matador Ranch had stood at the roadside park along Texas Highway 70 just south of town since 1986, the year of the Texas Sesquicentennial. it was destroyed during an EF3 tornado that hit the evening of Wednesday, June 21 and lay in pieces on its marble base the following morning. | LIZ ADAMS PHOTO
    HISTORICAL MARKER for the Matador Ranch had stood at the roadside park along Texas Highway 70 just south of town since 1986, the year of the Texas Sesquicentennial. it was destroyed during an EF3 tornado that hit the evening of Wednesday, June 21 and lay in pieces on its marble base the following morning. | LIZ ADAMS PHOTO

    Motley Co.’s Matador, pop. 571, suffers damage, deaths but pulls together in recovery