Joplin business searching for stolen Tornado memorial

The butterfly outside of the restaurant belonged to managers Kelly Weaver and Kristi Waggoner’s late grandmother Jayne Janes, who passed following the tornado.

July 25, 2021 6:26 PM

Posted: July 25, 2021 6:26 PM

JOPLIN, Mo. —Following the devastating 2011 Joplin tornado, the city started creating butterfly statues to honor those lives lost in the tornado.

They can be found all throughout the city, but unfortunately in the past few weeks, one was stolen from outside of Stogey’s Coney island in Joplin.

“The second weekend in July, it first went missing,” said Weaver.

The butterfly outside of the restaurant belonged to managers Kelly Weaver and Kristi Waggoner’s late grandmother Jayne Janes, who passed following the tornado.

“We just post about it this week and our customers and our loyal people have just been really accepting and  posted a lot of kind things…

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