Hobart service to celebrate Rye Hunt

A private memorial service will be held for family and friends to remember Rye Hunt, who died while travelling in Brazil.

The service will be held at Bellerive Oval in Hobart on Sunday.

The 25-year-old's body was found washed ashore on a beach last month, 18 days after he went missing in Rio de Janeiro.

"What we're trying to achieve is more a celebration of Rye's life, the person that he was for the people who supported and loved him," his brother-in-law Sam Brodribb, who is married to Hunt's sister Romany, said on Saturday.

"He was very loyal, very loving and an incredibly full-of-life man."

His uncle Michael Wholohan and girlfriend Bonnie Cuthbert arrived back in Hobart with his ashes last month.

Brazilian police believe he died from dehydration or drowning after attempting to swim while under the influence of a party drug.

He is believed to have suffered a psychotic reaction after taking the drug the night before he split from his travelling companion Mitchell Sheppard at Rio airport on May 21.

He had been working in the mining industry and living in Kalgoorlie and Perth before embarking on the trip.