Original Blog Entry: Tyler Perry gives Georgia family a new home

truesee — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:10:28 GMT

5:46 p.m. Friday, April 8, 2011

Tyler Perry gives Georgia family a new home

The Associated Press

NEWNAN, Ga. Movie mogul Tyler Perry delivered on a Christmas promise when he handed the keys of a new four-bedroom house to an 88-year-old woman who lost her rural Georgia home to a fire.

FILE - In this March 31, 2011 file photo, Tyler Perry, recipient of the CinemaCon Visionary Award, arrives for the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards in Las Vegas. Perry delivered on a Christmas promise when he handed the keys of a new four-bedroom house to an 88-year-old woman who lost her rural Georgia home to a fire. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Rosa Lee Ransby, right, waved to the media, flanked by her grandchildren, in front of her new house.

Rosa Lee Ransby and her seven grand- and great-grandchildren lost their home a week before Christmas.

Perry saw the story on a local television newscast and decided to rebuild the house. He also fully furnished it.

More than 20 family members attended ceremony in rural Coweta County on Friday.

Perry says he wanted to do something for Ransby when he found out the family didn't have any way to rebuild. He says the main thing was getting her enough space for the children and for them to have room to play.

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