With her name. Who knows - a sibling or cousin could find your narrative and feel good that their relative was remembered!

I'm working on attempting to contact some men that served with my Dad in World War II - some of whom received medals. My sister and Mom found pictures of them at the award ceremony. So far, I've contacted one family and the daughter is so excited! She didn't know why her father had gotten that medal and since my Dad wrote about the incident, I can fill her in. She's going to send the information to her son who teaches history so the story will be passed on far beyond my Dad or my family.

It's things like this why I research family history - to learn and to share the stories behind the names.

I am sorry you lost your friend

You can write an obituary for her and submit it to www.findagrave.com. Findagrave has functions for searching for specific individuals or specific gravesites. Or, there is a function for taking a virtual graveyard tour. Your childhood friend could be found by people who never knew her. It's a sweet way to keep a memory of her.

Gives her full name, year of birth and death and links to her parents. It also shows a pic of a basic headstone with her name on it and year of birth and death.

you don't need to have an actual "grave" to be listed on findagrave

there are hundreds of listings where someone was cremated & their ashes were scattered, or the type of burial is unknown.

you don't even need to know the birth or death years (can be listed as unknown)

but you *can* list a person's name who has passed away. if someone who knew that person comes across the listing they can send you a message to help you edit the page and fill in some of the blanks.

it's an amazing website.

one of my classmates put together a memorial table with all their senior pictures and people who knew them signed it like a yearbook. Of course Terry Winchell got the biggest signing on account of she was brutally murdered our senior year.