Updated: Sat Dec. 09 2006 11:34:13 PM

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Andrea Johnson was remembered as a loving mother who eventually succumbed to a depression she could no longer fight, tragically committing suicide and taking her son's life.

Johnson jumped from the Morningside overpass onto Hwy. 401 below on Dec. 3 with her two-year-old son Sulla Genua. The mother died at the scene while her son passed away en-route to hospital.

Her sister, Tanesha, gave the eulogy at a funeral service for both the mother and son.

"When Sulla was very small, Andrea would read him books, teach him the days of the week and his numbers."

Calling Johnson a beautiful young woman, she said her sister was a source of pride.

Tanesha apologized to her late sister for not recognizing the depth of depression Johnson was experiencing.

The young boy's father also spoke during the funeral, calling his young son a loving boy.

"He conquered the hearts of every person he encountered and he did it through his enormous smile, his great spirit for life and above all, his infinite capacity for love," Paul Genua said.

Mother and son were buried together in the same casket.

News of the two deaths shocked people in the Eglinton Avenue West neighbourhood where Johnson lived.

"What could drive a person to the river of no return?" neighbourhood barber Michael Moore asked Tuesday.

Others remembered a talkative little boy nicknamed 'Bucky.'

Flowers, toys and handwritten notes began appearing on the Scarborough overpass soon after the incident occurred. It was a public display of grief from people who did not know the child and his mother.

Family members also went to the scene to grieve.

Johnson's heart-broken mother Linette Batticks attached a photograph of her daughter to the guardrail among the flowers and toys.

With a report from CTV's MairiAnna Bachynsky and files from The Canadian Press