Dickens Youth Dies Here After Schuffle In School
SPUR (Special) - David Irwin Atkins, 15, who was injured Mar. 21 in a scuffle between classes at Patton Springs High School, died at 3 p.m. Friday at Methodist Hospital where he had been a patient since the afternoon of the incident.Injuries were apparently incurred when the Atkinson boy and other youth were involved in a scuffle and Atkinson hit his head on a wall, according to School Supt. C.W. Gleseeke.
The other youths were in the same class with Atkinson complained of a headache and took some aspirin, school officials said.
Collapsed At Home
Later that afternoon he collapsed at his home and was rushed to the Lubbock hospital, according to the boys mother, Mrs. Kenneth Atkinson, of Dickens.All three of the youths attended the Patton Springs High Schhol at Afton. There are no public schools at Dickens.
Funeral services for the boy will be 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Dickens First Baptist Church with the Rev. D.J. Peters pastor, officiating.
He will be assisted by the Rev. Donald Hancock, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Afton.
Burial Set
Burial will be in Dickens Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home of Spur.Atkinson, a sophomore at the school, was born Aug. 26, 1951 in Matador and had lived in the Dickens area all his life.
Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Atkinson of Dickens, three brothers, Kenny, Vance and Steve, all of the home; five sisters, Mrs. Darlene Hammons of Lubbock, Mrs. Jean Marshall of Roaring Springs, Judy Jancy and Kathy all of the home and two grandmothers, Mrs. Claude Atkinson and Mrs. Mary Mayo both of Dickens.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, March, 1967
Transcribed by Kay Laster
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