She was buried Thursday afternoon, two weeks after she was found naked and beaten in Boulder Canyon. The services were simple, restoring in death the dignity her murderer destroyed in the last violent moments of her life.

Donations by Boulder citizens saved the girl with the strawberry-blond hair from burial in a pauper's grave. A handful of mourners gathered in the Howe mortuary chapel and followed the casket to the grave, but none knew whom they were mourning.

Even the last rites read by the Rev. Paul Fife, pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, underlined the mystery of who the teenage girl was. There was a blank- an almost imperceptible pause in the priest's voice- at each point in the service where the name of the dead person is recited.

The drab gray of the cloth casket contrasted with the sprays of lillies and roses that banked it. But like everything else about the service the flowers were anonymous, with nothing to show who sent them or whom they were for.

An organ played softly in the chapel and a few women wept. Six pallbearers from the mortuary carried the casket with its frail burden to the hearse. They were George Howe, county coroner; Norman Howe, Francis Gillmore, Charles Walker, Harry Arnold, and Charles Timberlake.

"I am the ressurection and the life," intoned Father Fife as he stood at the head of the grave in the hillside cemetery. "Deliver us from the hand of enemy. Accept this the soul of thy servant...may she escape the justice of vengeance."

Somewhere out across the quiet college town a bell tolled mournfully. Not far from the cemetery babbled the creek beside whose waters the girl's body was found.

The mourners, some of whom had come in idle curiousity, some in charity for the girl who had no one to grieve for her, left the cemetery. A worker filled the grave and the earth closed perhaps forever on the mystery of the girl with the strawberry-blond hair and her killer.