Surviving siblings of toddlers who died in blaze pay tribute in song

The two surviving siblings of Deira and Deron Jr Peters, sang for their loved ones at their funeral service on Saturday, November 8, 2024.

Dressed in T-shirts with printed photographs of their brother and sister, Raven Quow and Derisha 0Peters sang “Lift me up” in tribute to the lives of their younger siblings who perished in a house fire at Langley Park in Georgetown on Wednesday, October 23, 2024.

The children’s mother, Shemille Glasgow-Peters appeared to be a tower of strength during the service.

She even mustered the courage to sing a song for her deceased children on Saturday.

Since the house fire which claimed the lives of her two youngest children, Peters had been using social media to express her grief and anguish.

A few days before the burial, Peters posted “ as the days are drawing hear for y’all burial, I am not ready whatsoever.

“I wouldn’t be able to see y’all smiles, hear y’all laughter, calling me Mommy.”

Peters who appears pregnant, said she may be smiling on the outside, “but deep inside nobody knows the hurts and pains and the tears”.

She said on social media that losing two of her children was like losing herself.

Delivering the sermon at Saturday’s funeral service, Rev Shakika Fraser pointed mourners to the story of Job in the Bible who, when he lost his family and wealth declared ‘the Lord gives and the Lord takes, blessed be the name of the Lord’.

Job had lost everything, and was speaking from a broken heart, and Rev Fraser noted that it is not easy to lose two loved ones at the same time.

He, nevertheless, encouraged the parents and other family members to trust God even in their darkest moments. During the funeral service, many persons, including Opposition Senator, Shevern John, Member of Parliament for the area, and Fitzgerald Bramble, the children’s godfather, paid tribute to them and encouraged the family.

‘Jesus loves the little children’ was one of the first songs mourners sang as the bodies of Deira, fondly called ‘Lil D’, and Deron who was also called DJ, left the church and proceeded to the Georgetown cemetery for burial. Deira died a few days shy of her fourth birthday, and Deron was one year old.