Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.

My son was a very smart individual. If he had one warning, he would have thought swimming in the lake was a bad idea," the boy's father said.

Funeral services for a 12-year-old Columbia-area middle school student who died July 18 after contracting a rare amoeba from South Carolina's Lake Murray will be held Saturday, July 26.