2010-03-10 / News

DPS awaiting blood tests in Hwy 31 fatality

By J. LOUISE LARSON news1@kilgorenewsherald.com
An Overton woman struck and killed by a passing motorist in front of a club on Highway 31 may have intended to end her life. According to Trooper Brandon Boulware of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Tammie Townsend, 43, may have had a history of suicidal tendencies and addictive issues before she stepped in front of a car on the night of Saturday, Feb. 27.


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I am Tammie Townsends

I am Tammie Townsends step-mother, I live in Sulphur Springs, Tx. I haven't been around Tammie much in the last few years, and didn't know anything about her being suicidal. I do know she had had a troubled life for years, she seemed to pick the wrong people to be her partners, and was abused by most of them. She was a very loving person and a good person. She loved her family and her children very much. I loved her very much and so did her step-father Ronnie, whom she always called Daddy, and he felt like she was his daughter. We all have our troubles in life, some just learn to cope with things better than others do. We all have crutches that we use, some just choose the more dangerous ones to use. God is the only judge in the finality of our lives. I feel that as others I have known in the last few months, Tammie was searching for her Peace, and I feel she found it with God. I loved her and she loved me that's what really matters in this life, and she will be missed by everyone that truely loved her. Keep her close family members in your prayers, that's the best thing you can do for them now.

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