Kentucky widow, 76, sobs as she fights to save home she's lived in for 55 YEARS ... trends now
An elderly widow is begging to save her home of 55 years before it is knocked down to widen a nearby highway.
Janet Arnett, 76, bought the 63-acre property in 1969 and after decades of living in mobile homes, built the house with her husband Lowell in 1998.
Four generations of her family either grew up in or spent large slabs of their childhood at 'Mamaw's House' in Magoffin County, Kentucky.
But decades of memories could be wiped out with plans for an expansion to Mountain Parkway run right through the middle of her land.
Janet Arnett, 76, is begging to save her home of 55 years before it is knocked down to widen a nearby highway
Arnett bought the 63-acre property in 1969 and after decades of living in mobile homes, built the house with her husband in 1998
Arnett with her daughter Lanessa DeMarchis and granddaughter Zoe Parker
'It's a small house, but to me, it's a mansion,' she told WYMT through tears.
'I'm 76, I'm not going to be around too much longer, why can't I stay here, in the house, my house?'
Arnett said she was offered money by developers to sell the land to make way for the expended road, but said the memories in the house were priceless.
She and her family appealed to local officials to change the plans to build around her home, but was told that wasn't possible.
Moving the house was also said to not be feasible because there would be no way to build a new septic tank.
Arnett kept the house after her husband Lowell (pictured together) died in 2015 and her family said it was the
