{"id":11021,"date":"2025-05-28T15:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=11021"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:00:30","slug":"young-kinmundy-girl-dies-due-to-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/11021-young-kinmundy-girl-dies-due-to-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Kinmundy Girl Dies Due to Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>A three-year-old Kinmundy girl has drowned in an above ground pool at an aunt and uncle\u2019s home in rural Odin.<\/p>\n<p>Marion County Coroner Claude Howell identifies the girl as Elaine McElroy, the daughter of Russell McElroy and Dawn Helton of Kinmundy.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was staying with her aunt and uncle outside Odin while her mother had gone to Nebraska to pick up the girl\u2019s father.\u00a0 A young boy at the residence saw the girl lying in the pool and notified the uncle.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency help was called and CPR was started on the scene.\u00a0 An Air Evac helicopter landed nearby, but was not used since the girl\u2019s condition never stabilized.\u00a0\u00a0 She was transported by ambulance to SSM Health St. Mary\u2019s Hospital in Centralia.\u00a0\u00a0 CPR continued in the ambulance and the emergency room before she was pronounced dead by the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Howell says an autopsy has been scheduled for Thursday to make sure the girl did not have any other issues that may have led to her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-year-old Kinmundy girl has drowned in an above ground pool at an aunt and uncle\u2019s home in rural Odin. 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