Funeral takes place for tragic Co Down teenager Kenadie Porter after unexplained death aged just 15

​The 15-year-old died in unexplained circumstances at home in Dromore, Co Down, last Saturday.

Her father had spoken about her passing during the week, saying that the post-mortem had not yielded any answers as to how she died.

Her funeral notice read simply that it was “peacefully in her sleep”.

The funeral for her was held at 1pm on Friday at Christ Encounters Tabernacle in Gilford, with a large number of mourners in attendance.

Given her fondness for dogs, it was suggested that donations could be made to Guide Dogs NI via Bobby Morrison Funeral Directors in Lisburn.

In the News Letter during the week, her father Craig had said that even in her mid-teens her faith in God was so strong that it helped him to become saved too.

"She was reading the children’s Bible with pictures and speech bubbles as happy as anything, and I thought to myself: that is what I want,” he said.

"No one told her to read the Bible, this was something Kenadie did on her own.”

She was also a Sunday school youth leader, and had ambitions to become a school teacher.

"Kenadie was the happiest wee girl. She had an innocence and we never had a worry with her,” said Mr Porter.

He added: “I know she wasn’t perfect. But I tell you what, she wasn’t far off it.”

He said her death at home on Saturday morning “just doesn’t make sense”, with no answers from the post-mortem.

It could be months before they get the results of further testing, he said.