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Four months have passed since the body of Joey English was discovered in Calgary. Her family walked in silence as a hearse with the body of the 25-year-old followed, to finally be laid to rest.
“She was crazy, upbeat, always laughed and like to joke around,” English’s aunt Barb Smith said.
Still, the gruesome manner of her death makes finding closure more difficult.
English’s remains were discovered in a treed area in Calgary in June, but some of her body parts have still not been found.
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“I’m glad we are finally putting her to rest,” Smith said.
“The hard part about it is not all her body parts are there.”
The family said this funeral will not offer full closure.
Joshua Jordan Weise, 40, of Calgary, is charged with one count of offering an indignity to human remains and accused of disposing her body at multiple locations around Calgary.
He is not, however, suspected of causing her death, according to both the Calgary Police Service and the Crown prosecutor.
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“Just a lot of unanswered questions,” Smith said.
Community and family members wore red ribbons on their arms to show support for English. They hope the symbolism of these ribbons will last beyond the service and keep her memory and their cause alive.
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“We are going to find a tree and tie all of our markers to a tree to make it visible,” relative Edna Fairbrother said. “There are like 10,000 vehicles that pass here every day and when they see that tree covered in ribbons, they’re going to ask: ‘what is that tree for?'”
“We want our girl brought home.”
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