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j' ' THE heartbroken parents of a s i much-loved teenager who died
; a suddenly have paid tribute to their •: “gentle giant of a son”.
jtS-.''Fifteen-year-old Tom Purdy Eirdied of'a;ruptured appendix at .ffviAlder-Hey Children’s Hospital, ‘ Liverpool. i-<, Tom, who was a Year 10 pupil at
'■iDebbie Purdy, in.West Bradford, jre? along with hisl3-year-ofd brother, Sam. Family^and friends packed St
,‘^i Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, fCslived with his parents Andrew and
?;:';.Helen’s- Church, Waddington, ' ; Cyesterday for the funeral service of ■ ;-j- the popular teenager. The service -
jgi^was also attended by teachers from , "siTom’s primary school - Wadding- :¥ton~and-West Bradford --which.,
: ’c, and healthy young boy, became ill. fts and was taken to Royal Blackburn ; «Hospital,dast Monday (March: e •22hd);-The next day he was trans- - ferred. to Alder Hey; Children’s f’Hospital,^where he underwent a
s ft: was closed for the afternoon as a • mark of respect. - .Tom, who was otherwise a fit
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MUCH-LOVED: Tom Purdy, who died suddenly after a ruptured appendix. -
vertiser and Times, Debbie re called the moment Tom was taken to hospital: “Tom had been unwell
series of tests and examinations. : Speaking to the Clitheroe Ad
'i t was a stomach bug. It was not until doctors began to operate on •Tom at Alder Hey that they dis-
: teriorating in front of our eyes. I ; just remember saying to the doc- ■ tors, ‘do something’, but there was • nothing they could do to save him. They tried their best, but it was too late.”
for a few days, but we just thought
i- covered his appendbc had burst. ■ ■ ■- ; “It.was awful. One minute he was there and the next he was de-
• ■ Debbie, who works as a teach- ,.ing assistant at Waddington and West Bradford Primary School, described Tom as a thoughtful and kind person who would do
i-of the family, she said: “Tom was : alovely boy. He was a big gentle
. last rolo. He was very organised, ■caring and considerate. Most of
; all, he was a great big brother to Sam.”
' Andrew spoke about Tom’s ■ TURN TO PAGE 2
-anythingforanyone.-;:- -In a' moving tribute on behalf
• giant of a boy and made people laugh all the time. He was very • generous and I always said to peo- . pie that he would give anyone his
YOUNG cricketers' swapped their bats for shovels to give Clitheroe Cricket Club a pre-season spruce up as part of NatWest’s Cricketforce weekend. Full story and another picture: page 5 . ' '
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