Funeral services will be Friday and Saturday for Lahainaluna High graduate Jay Cajimat, 20, who died April 6 in Iraq. KGMB

Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday at Ballard Family Mortuary in Kahului. Visitation will continue from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the mortuary, with a burial to follow at 10:30 a.m. at the Veteran's Cemetery in Makawao.

Cajimat will be buried with full military honors, including an honor guard, firing squad and flag presentation, The Maui News reported.

A luncheon will be held following the burial at Baldwin Beach Park. Ballard Family Mortuary is assisting with the arrangements.

Cajimat is survived by his parents, Dionie and Lilibeth Cajimat; three sisters, Kaya, LC and LJ; and his grandparents, Gabriel and Adelaida Salcedo and Caroline Cajimat.

Cajimat joined the Army immediately after graduating from Lahainaluna High School, and was deployed to Iraq in February.

Family members described him as a "loving son" who always set a positive example for his three younger sisters. Friends said he was the "unspoken leader" among his peers and former teachers recalled him as being "very sweet, hardworking, very respectful."

Lilibeth Cajimat said her family is "overwhelmed" by the numerous cards, e-mails and phone calls they have received from around the world, many of them from people they have never met.

"There are so many people out there who don't know my son but care about him. I just want to give a heart-filled thanks to everybody and I wish I could go to them one by one to say thank you," she said.

She added that friends and family are flying to Maui from Oahu and the Mainland to attend the services. Sixteen family members, including Jay Cajimat's grandmother, aunts, uncles and cousins are expected to arrive from Alaska today, she said.

Cajimat was born Jan. 26, 1987, in Manila, the Philippines, and his family moved to Maui when he was 3 years old.

Cajimat's body arrived on Maui earlier this week from Delaware, according to his mother. She said the family decided to bury him on Maui rather than the Philippines so they could be near him.

"We want to bury him here because this is where all his friends and family are now," she said.