GRAND JUNCTION, Iowa ([KCCI] – A Grand Junction woman’s handmade quilt fetched $1,000 in a silent auction Monday night, that raised more than $6,000 for the families of victims in the Perry school shooting.  Ellen McElroy stitched the quilt just months after losing her own son, Arnold Thomas, better known as “Tommy,” who was nine-years old when he was struck by a truck in 1981. Tommy died two days later. The auction winner, Tyler Pieper, said he’ll donate the money and Ellen gets to keep her quilt.

McElroy had submitted her quilt to benefit the family of Ahmir Jolliff — the sixth-grader who was shot and killed at Perry High School on Jan. 4th, and Valentina Mion, a student who was shot in the head.