Ten years after she was murdered by Robert Pickton, family and friends of Georgina Papin finally had a chance to say goodbye on Monday.
In a downtown Eastside park, mourners shared stories about Papin.
"She is a good bannock-maker and a good guitar player," Claudine Julian told the assembled crowd.
Papin's daughter Kristina Bateman travelled from Las Vegas to bury a tiny urn containing her mother's remains.
Bones from Papin's hands were found on Pickton's Port Coquitlam farm in 2002, and she was one of six victims the serial killer was convicted of murdering.
Though Papin disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside a decade ago, Bateman only received the remains from the BC Coroners Service on Tuesday, now that Pickton's court case has closed.
"It was really bittersweet," Bateman told CTV News. "I'm really happy to have her, finally."
Papin's sister Cynthia Cardinal said the burial represents closure for the family.
"We have our sister and we get to take her home now," she said.
But missing-women advocate Marlene George reminded those assembled to remember Papin that many families of suspected Pickton victims haven't been granted the same closure.
"There are 32 other families. Some of them get some of their remains to bring home to bury; there's others that don't have any remains to bury," George said.
Papin will be laid to rest where she was born -- on a reserve near Edmonton.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Lisa Rossington
