lit a candle 3h agoFourteen. And already lost his father, his uncle, his grandfather before him. Reading that obituary from Dayton stopped me cold this morning.
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Levi Ezkiel Ray Mayotte was a fourteen year old boy from Evensville, Tennessee. He was not a public figure, a performer, or a person known for a career or an achievement that made headlines during his life. What is known about him comes almost entirely from the obituary published by…
Levi Ezkiel Ray Mayotte was a fourteen year old boy from Evensville, Tennessee. He was not a public figure, a performer, or a person known for a career or an achievement that made headlines during his life. What is known about him comes almost entirely from the obituary published by Coulter-Garrison Funeral Home of Dayton, Tennessee, which described a boy who died young after a long illness and who was loved by his family and his community.
According to that obituary, Levi had been fighting cancer for a long time before his death. The illness, its type, and how long he lived with it beyond the phrase "a long battle" have not been made public, and no further medical details have been released by his family.
Levi died on November 5, 2026, at Erlanger Children's Hospital, a pediatric hospital in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area that treats seriously ill children from across the region. He was fourteen years old. His obituary notes that he was preceded in death by his father, Josh Mayotte, his uncle, Ezkiel Mayotte, and his grandfather, Russell Brielman, meaning Levi had already experienced significant loss in his own short life before his own death.
Because Levi was a private child rather than a public figure, there was no wave of celebrity tributes or national news coverage after his death. The record of his passing exists through the funeral home notice that served his local community in Dayton and Evensville, Tennessee, the place where his family arranged for his service and burial. The obituary's own description of him was simple and direct: he was just fourteen.
A funeral service for Levi was scheduled to be held at New Union Baptist Church in Dayton, Tennessee, with burial to follow in Eureka, Illinois. Readers arriving at this page are likely searching because they knew Levi personally, knew his family, or came across his obituary and wanted to learn more. This page records what is publicly known and confirmed, and it will be updated if his family or community shares more about his life.
Biography adapted from News reports and the sources cited on this page; death reported by Legacy | Obituary.
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same, that family has been through so much