LONE GROVE, OK - Yolanda Horn and her husband John had been working for months to remodel their home, but in March, John died suddenly, leaving Yolanda her six children with a partly finished home. Now after ten days and several hours of hard work, Yolanda says she finally has a house she can call a home.

Yolanda Horn says she and her late husband John always had many home renovation projects going, and recently had been working to extended the family's living room, but after John's sudden death three months ago Yolanda said the home repairs became less of a priority.

"The living room that we'd enclosed the taping and bedding hadn't been done. We got the sheet rock up, but we hadn't done any of that so it looked like an unfinished room. It looked like you'd just moved in," Yolanda says.

While Yolanda and three of her children were gone on vacation this month her friend Danielle Spencer wanted to finish the renovations John had started and surprise the family with a whole new look.

"I love them all, and they're a wonderful family, and they've been there for us when we needed help, so I wanted to do something for her and this is what I found I could do for her," Spencer says.

Spencer says she and 30 members from the First Baptist Chuch in Ardmore asked area businesses to donate building supplies and worked ten days around the clock to put down new wood floors, build a bar top, and refinish all three bedrooms.

"God was there every step of the way because we were down to nothing in our budget and people were coming through and donating things or we would not have gotten it done."

Yolanda and her family says the home makeover is more than they ever expected and feel blessed to have a whole community come together to help them in their time of need.

"Now it's a fresh start for me and the kids. We still have the great memories of dad here but we also have a new beginning for our new little family unit."

Yolanda says the makeover has inspired her to complete some more home renovations and believes the home will give her family a new beginning.