Grandparents found hugging one another after fallen tree killed them in their South Carolina home

As Hurricane Helene roared outside, the wind howling and branches snapping, John Savage went to his grandparents' bedroom to make sure they were OK. “We heard one snap and I remember going back there and checking on them,” the 22-year-old said of his grandparents, Marcia, 74, and Jerry, 78, who were lying in bed. “They were both fine, the dog was fine.” But not long after, Savage and his father heard a “boom” the sound of one of the biggest trees on the property in Beech Island, South Carolina, crashing on top of his grandparents’ bedroom and killing them. “I was just going through sheer panic at that point.” John Savage said his grandparents were found hugging one another in the bed, adding that the family thinks it was God’s plan to take them together, rather than one suffer without the other. Estep said their love was “immediate, and it was everlasting.” “They loved each other to their dying day,” John Savage said.