Petersburg brothers who froze to death had always been inseparable, nephew says

Roy and Obie Fugate, two among seven siblings, spent their lives together. They lived in what their nephew called “the hollers” outside Petersburg, where they worked on nearby farms during the week and went dancing on weekends. On Jan. 29, as wind and the encroachment of a polar vortex pushed temperatures well below zero degrees Fahrenheit, their truck became stuck in mud about a half-mile from their home. They got out and attempted to walk the rest of the way there. Neither made it inside.