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 mother鈥檚 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 husband鈥檚 remains in a church plot in Mill Bay when they are returned.

鈥淚t certainly means that we鈥檙e finally nearing the end of this story,鈥� he said.

鈥淲e thought that maybe someday, we would finally find out what happened to my mother, but so much time had gone past that we were beginning to doubt that we ever would.鈥�

After almost three decades of heartache and questions about Janet鈥檚 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.

鈥淲e walked great lengths of the highway at the time, along with Search and Rescue volunteers, looking for her, and a RCMP helicopter was in the sky looking as well,鈥� he said.

鈥淏ut there was a lot of territory to cover and we had no idea where we should be looking. Those lakes along the way can also be very deep, as was the lake they finally found her in.鈥�

Farris said the Coroners Service is preparing a report on his mother鈥檚 death, and he has been told that it will take some time to complete.

鈥淢y brother (and only other sibling) lives in Thailand and he鈥檚 also very happy that mom has been found,鈥� he said.

鈥淥ur thanks to everyone who made that possible.鈥�

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