Miss Patricia Louise (Patty) Tompkins, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tompkins, died Saturday afternoon. She was born on October 11, 1947, in Aledo, a daughter of Albert and Ella Crose Tompkins.
In addition to her parents, survivors include the maternal and paternal grandparents, a half sister, Ronda, who resides with her grandparents in Viola, and two sisters, Sandra and Connie, and three brothers, Albert, Donald and Ivan, all at home.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Shawgo Memorial Home by the Rev. Ira K. Hall, pastor of the Vermont Christian church. Burial in South Fulton cemetery.
A coroner’s jury decided Saturday evening that death was due to “self-inflicted strangulation with suicidal intent.”
The victim was found hanging by her neck from a halter rope in a chicken house at her home north of Astoria. The body was found by a younger sister. The child had apparently jumped off a platform in the chicken house after tying a halter rope around her neck. Attempts to revive her with a resuscitator failed. It was reported Patricia had argued earlier about who was going to wash the breakfast dishes.
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