CHAPELTON, Clarendon — Damion Watson, the second staff member of the Phillips and Son Funeral Home found murdered in St Catherine on August 10, was laid to rest on Wednesday with family and friends remembering him mostly for the unconditional love he had for his mother.

"Damion was a humble and jovial person," his aunt Janice Broderick told the congregation at the Pentecostal City

Mission Church, in Chapelton, Clarendon where the thanksgiving service was held.

"He was the most caring person for his mother. In the mornings he would go to the slaughtering house and get all kind of meat stuff for her. He never liked to see her unhappy," Broderick said of Damion, who was 19 at the time of his death.

"From a tender age he was a family man, always calling to find out how his (siblings) are doing," she added.

Damion and his co-worker Pearnel Watson (no relation) are believed to have been murdered on the night of August 9 after they went to pick up a body in Old Harbour, but did not return.

Their bodies -- clad in the uniforms of the funeral home -- were found the following evening with hands and feet bound and gunshot wounds to their heads in bushes near Kitson Town,

St Catherine.

Born May 8, 1991 to Janet Pinnock and Joel Watson -- Damion attended the Chapelton All-Age School where it said he excelled at sports, but was later enrolled into the Four Paths Primary and Junior High School after going to live with his grandmother Elsie Lewin.

He then moved on to the Ebony Grove Heart Academy after which he took up employment at the Phillips and Son Funeral Home.

Damion was taught from an early age by his grandmother that he could achieve anything he put his mind to and that perhaps contributed to him earning the respect of his employers and co-workers alike for the way in which he conducted himself at work.

"He was quiet, and an honest working individual," Trevor Phillips of the Phillips and Son said of his late employee.

David Cole of the Witter and Sons Funeral Home, also paid tribute to his friend and encouraged the family to take heart.

"It is really sad to see the way a young man so promising has gone," he said, "But family members remember that there is a God and he said no secret sin will go unpunished."

In delivering the eulogy, Damion's aunt Stacy-Ann Lewin described him as a "foodie" among other things.

"Damion was such a unique individual, loving, kind and devoted towards everything he did. He was a jack of all trades," Lewin read.

"Employers and co-workers at Phillips and Son loved him. They were his third family and they meant everything to him. He was dedicated to his work.

"He was a foodie, yes he loved food," she said with a smile, "and he had lots of manners."

Damion is survived by mother Janet, father Joel and siblings Yanique, Kim, Rayon, Warren, Demar, Akeem, Okeem, Alex and Andre.

His remains were interred in the Suttons Cemetery.

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