Claxton Bay teen laid to rest

Rolle on Tuesday, was playing on a rope swing attached to the branch of a tree at the back of his grandmother’s home. His grandmother Marilyn Davis found her grandson hanging from a tree.

Rolle died while receiving treatment.

Eulogizing her brother at the funeral service, Celeste Denesha Rolle said he was a teenager any parent would be proud to have.

She said he was not into drinking or clubbing, but instead had a love for playing football. His favourite movies were, Transformers and The Fast and Furious.

She said her brother was looking forward to going to the movies to watch, Fast and Furious 8 with his friends. The bond they shared, Celeste said, was special as they were inseparable.

“We were very close and I would always wait in the gallery for him to come home from school and that habit still stuck with me even as big as I am,” she said.

Celeste said that like any other siblings she and her brother had disagreements but they were quick to forgive each other. She said her brother took her most places he went and introduced her to new experiences which she grew to love. Celeste said that she remembered on April 18 when her brother was born.

She told mourners that throughout the pregnancy her mother thought she was having a girl.

“The ultrasound said it was a girl and you know ultrasounds don’t lie. My mother even brought pink clothes already and my brother came home with a pink dress from the hospital,” she said.

Celeste said that her brother’s dream was to become a chemical engineer and work to provide for his family. A year ago, relatives had tied the rope around a branch of a samaan tree at the back of their Claxton Bay home and Rolle and his cousins used that rope to swing while playin