‘I’ve never met two people more in love’ | Family, friends remember couple who died in Sevier County fire together

What This Story Is About A Wears Valley couple, Bobby and Donna Schultz, died after a house fire on Willow Tree Road early Sunday morning. They are being remembered by friends and family as ‘children at heart’ and devout members of their local church, where they were greatly involved in. Why It Matters They celebrated 21 years of marriage together this year, and loved traveling the world together and going out on dates, friends and family say.

What Happens Next The cause of the Sevier County fire still remains under investigation, and funeral arrangements for the couple have not yet been announced. For Context Concerns were raised when the couple didn’t show up for church on Sunday morning. Their family got the call that there had been a fire shortly after.

Updates are expected to be posted on the Wears Valley Methodist Church Facebook page. SEVIER CO., Tenn. (WVLT) - A Wears Valley couple is being remembered by friends and family with an outpour of love after the two died in a house fire early Sunday morning.

Summary of the outlet's own feed. From WVLT (Knoxville), October 28, 2026.