LAYTON -- Young Evan Martin passed away peacefully Monday night, July 4 -- right after the fireworks display. The 3-year-old had suffered from brain cancer, diagnosed last summer. He was the Poster Child for the Layton Relay for Life, which raises funds for cancer research and to aid cancer victims with various programs, held several weeks ago. Evan's parents, Jenny and Jared Martin, have two other children: baby Lance and Jace, 5. Evan died on his brother Jace's birthday. "He had been sleeping for a week," said neighbor Melissa Munns. She and others in Layton held a huge bake sale, last Saturday, in front of Red Lobster. Nearly $4,000 was raised.

"We're still going to hold a raffle because our goal was to get $5,000" to aid the family, she said. "We're taking raffle tickets to different businesses, hoping we'll get the $1,000 to help them with final expenses."

"This has been absolutely incredible," Munns said of the community response. "I'm so surprised at the community, the donations of all the restaurants with the raffle, the baked goods.

"People from various restaurants brought things out, KFC donated 10 pies. We had so much stuff from the different bakeries in town, we thought we'd have to have another bake sale to get rid of it all," she said.

"It was incredible, every last crumb was sold. The community amazed me. I'd like to thank the community, and all those businesses who donated so generously to make it so successful."

A viewing will be held Thursday, July 7, 6-8 p.m. at the Lindquist Layton Mortuary, 1867 N. Fairfield Road.

The service will be held at the Layton LDS Stake Center, 60 W. Gordon Ave., Friday, July 8, at 11 a.m., with a viewing held at the chapel one hour prior to the service. The obituary appears elsewhere in today's newspaper.