Services Held for Murdered Father, Son : Funeral: The mother of slain boy receives uniform of the Dodgers, the team he wanted to play for. Police are still investigating the La Tuna Canyon slayings of five.

Junior Cervantes wanted to be a professional baseball player, but on Monday it was his grieving mother who was presented with a Dodger uniform as her 13-year-old son was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale.

“One thing is for sure,” Kurt Rennels, the boy’s former coach told a crowd of 250 mourners. “Wherever he’s at, he’s playing baseball, his uniform is dirty, his hat is chewed up and he’s got a smile from ear to ear.”

Ismael Cervantes Jr., known as Junior to his friends, and his father, Ismael Cervantes, 43, were buried as police continued to investigate their murders and those of three employees of Cervantes’ catering truck business last week.

The bodies were discovered last Tuesday in rural La Tuna Canyon, two days after the five disappeared from the Tacos Tlaquepaque catering truck in North Hollywood, where Cervantes had sold tacos for 10 years.

Although Cervantes rarely carried more than $200 in cash on his catering truck, police said they are investigating whether robbery could have been the motive for the killings.

Mourners at the funeral included a score of school children, some in the blue baseball caps worn by the team on which the younger Cervantes was a standout catcher.

Father Henry Perez of St. Mary’s of the Angels Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles directed his remarks to those who are angry over the murders.

“Don’t lose your faith,” said Perez, who then quoted from the writings of Jews who hid in a basement from Nazis during World War II:

“I believe in the sun, even when it’s not shining, I believe in love even when I don’t feel it, and I believe in God even when He is silent.”

Martha Cervantes, Junior’s mother, collapsed as she was being led from the church, but recovered and continued to the grave site on a slope looking north over Glendale. The plots are in the same area as that of former New York Yankee manager Casey Stengel.

At the brief graveside service, friends filed in front of family members sitting in chairs, kissing and hugging them.

Rennels, 26, a youth counselor, handed the boy’s mother the Dodger uniform with Junior’s name and number on it. Friends said Junior dreamed of being a Dodger some day.

Rennels also presented Martha Cervantes with a baseball autographed by his teammates.

Other survivors include daughters Cecilia, Virginia and Karla; and sons Johnny and Israel.

A rosary was scheduled Monday night at Castaneda-Crollet Mortuary for the other three murder victims, brothers Jesus Sandoval, 16, and Heriberto Sandoval, 19, and Francisco Gasca, 31. They will be buried in Mexico.