George Farris is looking forward to finally bringing his mother back home to Mill Bay.
The body of his mother Janet was recently found in her car at the bottom of Griffin Lake west of Revelstoke, on Highway 1, after she first went missing without a trace 27 years ago while travelling alone to a family wedding in Alberta.
Farris said his mothersa国际传媒檚 remains have been sent to a funeral home in Revelstoke where they will be cremated, and the family intends to inter them next to her husbandsa国际传媒檚 remains in a church plot in Mill Bay when they are returned.
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After almost three decades of heartache and questions about Janetsa国际传媒檚 disappearance among the Farris family, she was finally found largely thanks to a 13-year-old boy and his GoPro.
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George Farris said the family had assumed that the most likely scenario was that Janet had a car accident along the route to the wedding, and that she either had a medical emergency, fell asleep at the wheel, or tried to avoid hitting an animal or some other obstruction on the road.
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Farris said the Coroners Service is preparing a report on his mothersa国际传媒檚 death, and he has been told that it will take some time to complete.
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