Loved ones gather for Allisha Watts' funeral on Sunday afternoon

The funeral for Watts was held at 2:00 p.m. in the Owens Auditorium at Sandhills Community College in Southern Pines.

"I've never seen this many people at funeral at my life and I'm 78 years old," Jackie Monroe, Watts's friend, said.

People who attended wore her favorite color and remembered the happier parts of her life.

"She was just so fun and loving and kind to be around," Monroe said.

In a poem, her parents said, "She brought the sunshine and brightened up their world."

Watts' body was found deep in the woods near a Montgomery County cemetery on August 24, more than a month after she was first reported missing.

"She was a special, very special person, she really was," Monroe said.

A horse and carriage transported her body to its final resting place.

Watts was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Southern Pines.

She will buried at nearby Mount Hope Cemetery.