Arkansas City ? Jodi Sanderholm, the Cowley College student whose disappearance spawned a four-day search, was eulogized Tuesday as a beautiful woman known for her smile and her love of dancing.

More than 2,000 people attended the memorial service for the 19-year-old student who loved to dance. She was a member of the Cowley College Tigerette Danceline and an instructor and member of the Ark City Dance studio. She studied pre-pharmacy at the college.

Her love of dancing became the theme of her memorial service, which included a recording of the song “Dancing With The Angels.” Country music writer Dave Parks also wrote a song, “Dance,” after Sanderholm died and played a recording of it at the service.

The Rev. Charles Grant, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, created his sermon around the lyrics of the song “Lord of Dance.”

“For Jodi, dance was life,” Grant told mourners.

Sanderholm’s car was found Jan. 9 at the bottom of the Cowley State Fishing Lake, and her body was found about eight miles away. Searchers had looked for days after she disappeared Jan. 5, and the community held nightly candlelight vigils praying for her safe return.

No charges have been filed in her death, although police have said they have a suspect in custody on unrelated charges. Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison has scheduled a news conference for noon today.

Grant said Sanderholm wanted to be cremated after her death, She was aware, he said, that in cremation the atoms of the body are combined with oxygen and released into the air as mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor – and that air scatters everywhere.

“There is a sense Jodi is everywhere, and perhaps even becoming a part of us,” Grant said.

He also noted that Sanderholm’s sister, Jennifer Mayfield, of Blue Springs, Mo., gave birth to a daughter, Emma Jolea Mayfield, after Sanderholm disappeared. She looks much as Sanderholm did as a baby, he said, and is as well behaved as she was then.

“They are convinced the spirit of Jodi lives on in Emma Jolea,” Grant said of Sanderholm’s family.