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Sorry for your loss. Sometimes it may be good to perform a necropsy on your dead chicken to look for any blockage in the crop, proventriculous, gizzard, or in the intestines. It's not that difficult to do, and it helps you learn the cause of death. Sometimes there can be blockage farther down...

Try to get her to drink water by dipping her beak or holding up a small container to her beak. Water to flush out the crop is best for her now, not food. Check her crop in the morning when it should be empty. Sometimes a large clump of long grass can get stuck in the crop or they can swallow...

Offer some vitamins and electrolytes in her water on very warm days. She could be dehydrated or be suffering heat stress. Check her crop to see that it is emptying normally by early morning. Feel of her breastbone and lower abdomen for loss of weight or any fullness. Has she been wormed...