GRANTSBURG—The on-going investigation into the death of a 50 year-old camper at Trade Lake Camp has, in effect, closed the camp for the remainder of its season.

Shirley Meade, from a group home in St. Paul Park, MN, was found dead in the early morning hours of July 18.

Camp officials, after consulting with the state licensing department, voluntarily closed the camp until they discovered why Ms. Meade died.

Preliminary autopsy results, while indicating Meade suffered from a slight case of pneumonia and had recently fallen, were inconclusive. "We're still awaiting toxicology results to determine a cause of death," Burnett County Medical Examiner Mike Maloney said Monday.

According to Trade Lake Camp's Barb Denn, Meade was found in a recliner in the camp's bunkhouse, not the dining hall as reported by the sheriff last week.

"She refused to sleep the whole time she was here," Denn said. "We had her in a recliner where the overnight staff sit."

"She's been coming here for 18 years and she always acted this way except for not wanting to sleep," Denn continued. "She was so much fun to have at camp."

As to the comment by the sheriff that camp staff did not react to her medical condition, Denn said the camp did not have a signed medical release to have her seen by a doctor.

Sheriff Dean Roland did say he still has people to interview, but so far, all of the accounts he has received have been similar. Once the final autopsy results are in and the investigation is complete, he said he will release a report.