EL DORADO ? More than 400 mourners braved bitter winter winds Thursday to say goodbye to a Butler Community College student whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt for her alleged killer even as searchers looked for her body.

Emily Sander was laid to rest at the local cemetery on the outskirts of this Kansas community where she lived a seemingly ordinary life, working as a secretary at an electric company by day and going to business management classes by night.

Sander, 18, was last seen alive on Nov. 23 as she left an El Dorado bar with a man police have identified as Israel Mireles, 24. Her disappearance drew nationwide attention after it was discovered that she also led a secret life as an Internet porn model named Zoey Zane.

But the photos that moved the people to tears at her funeral were those of her everyday life in Kansas: childhood photos of family at Christmas, graduation photos with family and friends, even the silly photos of Sander sticking her tongue out for the camera.

The teenager’s funeral opened with a recording of a Brooks & Dunn song, “God Must Be Busy.”

“God takes pity on us in our town of El Dorado,” the Rev. Brian Bebak of St. John’s Parish in El Dorado told an overflow crowd attending the closed-casket funeral service.

Her family did not speak at the service. The family photo display was punctuated by loud sobs from people in the audience.

“God is grieving with each one of us today. … He is in no way indifferent to our loss,” Bebak told them.

Bebak tried to comfort mourners, telling them Sander is spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year.

“Forgive whatever sins she may have committed in human weakness,” Bebak prayed.

Authorities are looking for Mireles and his 16-year-old girlfriend, Victoria Martens. Mireles was seen leaving a bar with Sander on Nov. 23, and her body was found six days later.

Searchers found Sander’s body about 50 miles east of El Dorado as police retraced the route they believed Mireles took to pick up his girlfriend in Baxter Springs.

The search for Mireles and Martens continued on Thursday. Family and police fear for the safety of Martens, who is seven months pregnant with a baby girl she and Mireles have named Isabelle Marie.

Her mother, Sandy Martens, pleaded earlier this week for her daughter to call home, telling her she missed her and loved her unconditionally.

Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison’s office is assisting in the investigation and prosecution of the case. His spokeswoman, Ashley Anstaett, said Thursday that she had no new information to release in the case and the search for Mireles.