DELRAY BEACH – Funeral arrangements have been set for two children found dead in the C-15 canal at the Boca-Delray line last week and for their mother whose body was allegedly dumped at a landfill last August, and just recently identified.
Wake services for 10-year-old Jermaine McNeil, his 6-year-old sister Ju’Tyra Allen and their mother, Felicia Brown, 25, will be held Friday, March 11, at 6 p.m. at St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church, 900 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach.
Jermaine McNeil
Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 12 at 2 p.m., also in St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church. The children and their mother will be buried together at the Delray Cemetery.
Donations can be made at any Wachovia using the account # 2000051864183. This account was opened by the Optimist Foundation of Boca Raton, a 501c3 organization, to allow the community an opportunity to help provide proper funeral services for Jermaine and his family.
Jermaine was a popular player for the Boca Jets football team.
On March 2, Jermaine and Ju’tyra were found floating in the C-15 canal. Although medical examiners have conducted autopsies, detectives have not made public the details about what caused the children’s deaths.
Homicide detectives believe the decomposing body of Brown was found last August in a county garbage dump, but West Palm Beach investigators have yet to confirm that through scientific testing.
On Monday, grief counselors were on hand at Pine Grove Elementary School in Delray Beach, where Jermaine and Ju’Tyra were students.