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Celebration of life planned for Quinn Butt

Friends and family of Quinn Butt have a "celebration of life" planned for this morning in Riverhead, Harbour Grace.
Quinn Butt, 5, died on April 24 in Carbonear. (Submitted)

Friends and family of Quinn Butt have a "celebration of life" planned for this morning in Riverhead, Harbour Grace.

The service is set to take place at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church at 10:30 a.m.

On Thursday, about 2,500 people attended a candlelight vigil for the five-year-old who died at her father's home in Carbonear last weekend.

Police have charged Butt's father with first-degree murder

Family are asking that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Iris Kirby House in St. John's, a foundation that offers shelter to women and children experiencing domestic violence.