Chevelle and Jermaine Lewis may not have been famous, but to the people they knew, they were delightful beings who had the ability to find joy in any situation.

Hundreds were out Saturday to celebrate the lives of the siblings, who died a month ago after the vehicle in which they were travelling slammed into a house in Spanish Town, St Catherine.

The deluge of tributes that flooded the thanksgiving service at Faith Temple New Testament Church of God in Portmore, St Catherine, from the many organisations and people they interacted with was testament to the fact that their lives, though short-lived, were impactful.

Chevelle, a 14-year-old ninth -grade student of St Andrew High School for Girls, was described as a free-spirited, friendly, strong-minded individual who would plant spontaneous kisses and hugs on her friends, teachers and relatives.

“Chevelle stood out from the first encounter as a young lady who dared to be different and not to conform to conventional expectations. She was a courageous child whose eyes often gleamed with mischief and playfulness,” her form teacher Janice Whyte Creary recalled.

“Her kisses were the beginning to a beautiful day,” a classmate noted in a tribute.

Though she only spent a little over a year at ‘Andrews’, her mischievous, yet loving presence permeated throughout the school. Aptly, she was involved in a multitude of co-curricular activities.

“She was good at anything she placed her mind to. As one of my cousins said ‘Chevelle nuff’. She was in everything — tracks, swimming, Key Club, [and] dance, just to name a few,” her cousin Janet Wright said as she read the eulogy.

“Her jovial spirit meant that her presence was in whatever she did. Chevelle was just a talented young lady,” she continued.

Her brother Jermaine, a Kingston College alum, was remembered as a kind gentleman who, like his younger sister, was capable of making anyone smile.

“I’d like to think of Jermaine as the little giant with a heart of gold… who had a passion for life,” his cousin Maurice Rose said in delivering the eulogy.

Former schoolmates reminisced on the brotherhood they shared.

“I remember at KC Jermaine was the great money lender, so we could always depend on Jermaine and expect him to come to school with a big coil of money. We would be like, ‘Jermaine, mi nuh have no lunch money today enuh, so you give me $500 and next week mi give you $550’, and that’s how we would do things,” a fellow alum in Jermaine’s year group said.

An information technology technician, Jermaine was described as a promising individual who dreamed of owning an IT company some day.

Like his sister, he strived at any task placed before him and never relented in achieving excellence. Rose also noted that he was involved in extra-curricular activities from as early as primary school.

“While he excelled academically he was an instrumental member of the school’s (Ascot Primary) quiz team as well as various sports teams, active at the time. You name it, Jermaine was a part of it, so much so that when the girls’ netball team was without a coach, they could always depend on Jermaine to rally them,” Rose stated.

The siblings died on the morning of April 16 when Jermaine left their family home in Eltham Acres to drive his other sister, Chevonise, to work with Chevelle as his passenger. Police report that on their way back home Jermaine lost control of the vehicle, which slammed into a house less that five minutes away from his destination on Brunswick Avenue in Spanish Town.

The occupants of the house survived the ordeal.