Gloria Densham has been waiting for more than 40 years but she finally gets to pay tribute to her daughter on Friday in a somber funeral at Oakdale Memorial Park in Glendora.
The remains were released to the family and now Densham is planning to inter them in a cremation wall so "the sunrise will be at her head and the sunset at her back."
Densham cries to this day when talking about her daughter, a powder puff football player and aspiring cosmetician, whose life was cut way too short.
"I'm sad," said Densham, fighting to keep her composure. "I'd like to have seen what she would've done with her life."
Glendora police detectives Matt Fenner and Marty Amaro, now retired, plan on attending the funeral. Fenner said it will be a tough day, but he hopes it will bring closure for Densham.
"Most of all she wanted to have a Christian burial for her daughter," Fenner said.