{"id":343983,"date":"2026-07-17T22:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343983\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:43:23","slug":"husband-wife-of-35-years-killed-when-tree-falls-on-car-during-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343983\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband, wife of 35 years killed when tree falls on car during storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/07\/16\/victims-identified-north-tallahassee-deadly-severe-weather-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/07\/16\/victims-identified-north-tallahassee-deadly-severe-weather-accident\/\">WCTV<\/a>\/Gray News) &#8211; A married couple in Florida was killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/07\/10\/tpd-two-people-dead-after-tree-falls-car-during-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/07\/10\/tpd-two-people-dead-after-tree-falls-car-during-storms\/\">nearly a week ago<\/a> when a tree fell on their car during a storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Tallahassee Police Department identified the victims as Patti Haller, 63, and Steve Haller, 65. Police said a large tree fell directly on the front seat area of their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the couple\u2019s online <a href=\"https:\/\/everloved.com\/life-of\/patti-and-steve-haller\/obituary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/everloved.com\/life-of\/patti-and-steve-haller\/obituary\/\">obituary<\/a>, Patti and Steve Haller were married for 35 years and were \u201crarely seen apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTheir lives were defined by a profound devotion to one another and their family,\u201d the obituary said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The couple is survived by their children and a grandchild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the obituary, the family is asking for donations in the couple\u2019s honor in lieu of flowers. The website shows the fund has raised more than $22,000.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray News) &#8211; A married couple in Florida was killed nearly a week ago when a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[141016,141012,141013,140582,140581,232,141014,234,233,141015],"class_list":["post-343983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-killing-couple","tag-married-couple-killed-in-storm","tag-patti-and-steve-haller","tag-patti-haller","tag-steve-haller","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-couple-killed-in-storm","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tree-falls-on-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}