Gustavo Puga rushed to grab his sleeping daughter and yelled at his common law wife to take cover.

Rosemary Rosales was in the kitchen of their manufactured home in Holly when the twister hit, fast and without warning, at about 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The tremendous force of the winds lifted them up and threw them out of their home. Puga landed near a tree, clutching his 3-year-old daughter, Noelia Puga. Rosales was thrown on top of a tree, severely injured.

Puga and the little girl survived. Rosales, 29, was pronounced dead about 5: 30 a.m. Thursday.

Doctors at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs worked for four hours to stabilize her injuries before returning her to an intensive care room to be with her family before she died.

The couple's older son, Gus, 7, was with his grandmother just two houses away when the tornado hit. Orelia Puga grabbed her grandson and hid inside a walk-in closet when she heard the windows shatter.

Puga and Rosales had planned to have a wedding soon. Puga desperately tried to save Rosemary, telling her over and over, "You've got to wake up. I was going to marry you," said the woman's sister, Victoria Rosales.

Oscar Puga said his brother, who is a truck driver, had saved $8,000 to buy his own rig.

He asked that if anyone finds the envelope with the money in it to please turn it over.

"Its not about the money it's about his dream." Oscar Puga said. "If you find it, please give it back."