A LOVING PERSON WHO WILL BE A STAR IN THE SKY; Bridge jump girl buried.Byline: MAGGIE BARRY ONE of the two girls who leapt to their deaths in an apparent suicide pact Noun 1. suicide pact - an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time; "the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact" was buried yesterday. Georgia Rowe, 14, was laid to rest in the tiny community of Sorn in Ayrshire where she was brought up. Her two young nieces remembered their aunt in an emotional tribute. Hannah Sandilands, eight, said: "She was a loving and caring person who made me happy all the time. "After the funeral After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal Georgia will become a star in the sky." Her sister Erin, 11, added: "She was kind and generous and always smiling. Georgia was a fun and loving auntie." More than 200 people packed into the tiny parish kirk. Many were friends from school who struggled to contain their grief and shock that Georgia and her pal Neve Lafferty, 15, jumped 125ft off the Erskine Bridge The Erskine Bridge is a cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland, connecting West Dunbartonshire with Renfrewshire. During construction of the bridge, a major collapse of the West Gate Bridge in Australia, a bridge of a similar construction, into the River Clyde in an apparent suicide pact on October 4. Fighting back tears, Tanya Rowe, 46, Georgia's aunt who looked after her, remembered the last time they had been together - hours earlier on that day. She said: "I thank God for the last day we spent together. We laughed, talked, hugged, kissed and ate strawberry tart. "But most importantly we made plans for the future and I will treasure those memories forever. She was a beautiful girl inside and had a heart of gold." Georgia was born to Tanya's sister, Mandy Oliver, from Hull, but she was unable to take care of her. Tanya added: "She was a wonderful gift and I thank Mandy for that with all my heart." The service was also attended by Neve Lafferty's mum Colette Bysouth. The friends had been residents at the Good Shepherd Centre for troubled girls in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, when they jumped off the bridge. Neve's funeral was held in her home town of Helensburgh, in Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute (Earra-Ghaidheal agus Bòd , last week. CAPTION(S): TRAGEDY Georgia Rowe GRIEF Georgia's aunt Tanya with other mourners |
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