PALMETTO BAY, Fla. – A local children's activist was laid to rest on Monday morning.
Funeral services for Claudine Ryce were held at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Palmetto Bay. Ryce died after a heart attack last week.
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Ryce's son, Jimmy, was kidnapped and killed in September 1995. His body was found three months later in a field.
A Cuban-American immigrant named Juan Carlos Chavez was convicted of Jimmy Ryce's murder, and he is awaiting execution on Florida's death row.
Claudine Ryce and her husband set up a foundation to help other families who lost their children to predators.