Miss Yeates’ body was found beside a country road near Bristol The funeral of Jo Yeates is due to take place later.
Miss Yeates, 25, was found dead on Christmas Day, eight days after going missing from her Bristol home.
Her parents said the past six weeks had been “traumatic” and appealed to the media for privacy at the funeral in Ampfield, Hampshire.
Vincent Tabak, 33, who lived next door to Miss Yeates’ Canynge Road flat, has been charged with her murder.
Miss Yeates, who was originally from Ampfield, was reported missing by her boyfriend Greg Reardon on 19 December, when he returned to their home after a weekend visiting family in Sheffield.
The landscape architect disappeared on 17 December after going for Christmas drinks in Bristol city centre with work mates.
Her frozen body was found by dog walkers alongside Longwood Lane, Failand.
A church service is planned at St Mark’s Church in Ampfield followed by a private interment attended by close family members.
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