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| Allison Baden-Clay |
Priscilla and Geoff Dickie are organising the funeral for their 43-year-old daughter - to take place at Ipswich's St Paul's Anglican Church on Friday - but no cause of death has been provided and the results of extensive forensic testing remain outstanding.
"We're as fine as can be expected," Mrs Dickie said yesterday.
"I'm surrounded with all my family here. We're actually trying to organise the funeral.
"(Husband) Gerard gave permission to us to arrange the funeral in co-operation with him."
It's understood that Mr Baden-Clay, who reported his wife missing the morning after she reportedly took a late-night walk and didn't return, spent the long weekend at Tallebudgera on the Gold Coast with friends and his three daughters, who are still coming to terms with their mother's death.
The trip was part of an annual gathering that the late Mrs Baden-Clay had joined in previous years.
Mrs Dickie said the family planned to have Reverend Bev Bell from their Kenmore parish head the funeral proceedings.
Rev Bell recently hosted a service for Mrs Baden-Clay at the Church of the Good Shepherd, which is located next door to the Baden-Clay family's home on Brookfield Rd where she went missing more than two weeks ago.
The Courier-Mail revealed yesterday that police were awaiting a toxicology reading on Mrs Baden-Clay's body and forensic testing of the family cars. Police wouldn't say reveal a cause of death wasn't released, saying it was an ongoing homicide investigation and they were unable to comment.
Mrs Baden-Clay was last seen at her Brookfield home in Brisbane's west late on Thursday, April 19.
Her body was found 11 days later at Kholo Creek crossing at Anstead, about 15km away.
"With your emotions, the initial emotion that she was missing. That was bad enough . . . then to find her, that was more or less a relief," Mrs Dickie said last week.
"And then to find she was murdered, that just makes it harder, but it makes us more determined to keep going for her.
"Everything we do now, we do for the girls."
The Dickies have since set up an education trust fund for their granddaughters.
Donations can be made through the NAB to BSB: 084 737, account: 133196502, or viabadenclay.appeal@gmail.com.
