By Associated Press A mentally ill, homeless former Marine who died in an overheated jail cell more than two months ago was a giving and kind person, his relatives said Friday during a modest family funeral. 'You're going to be missed, Big Bro,' a tearful Cheryl Warner said at the poignant farewell for 56-year-old Jerome Murdough. His body lay in a closed, blue-grey casket decorated with purple and white flowers at a Queens funeral home before it was hoisted into a hearse for burial in New Jersey. Massaging the pain: Lakisha Murdough, right, consoles her sister Victoria Murdough, both daughters of Jerome Murdough, during his funeral at the Cobbs Funeral Chapel, in Queens, New York
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Jerome Murdough, 56, had internal body temperature of at least 100 degrees when he was found dead in a cell in Rikers Island February 15
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Murdough was arrested a week earlier for trespassing for sleeping in internal stairwell on the roof of a Harlem apartment complex
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City officials said inmate's anti-psychotic medications made him more sensitive to heat, and he also failed to open a vent in his cell
Murdough died in a @placeholder jail cell during one of the coldest recorded winters in city history.