GOSHEN, N.H. (AP) – A small group of friends dedicated a trail bridge in memory of a woman who first was reported missing, then killed, her body burned in a fire pit.

The bridge along the Ruth LeClair Memorial Trail is dedicated to Edith Pen Meyer. It features a granite step engraved with the words, “The Pen Meyer Bridge, dedicated with love, honor and respect, July 4, 2005.”

Meyer, who disappeared in February, would have turned 56 on Monday.

“We just talked about our remembrances of her,” Madeline Stevens, Meyer’s former neighbor, said Tuesday. The Stevens had known Meyer for at least four years.

Goshen Conservation Commission chairman Bea Jillette said the memorial was proposed by Meyer’s ex-husband, Richard Rankin, who owns a landscaping business in Newbury.

“How she loved that trail and how she would walk it night and morning,” with her dog, Madeline Stevens said. “She would have been pleased.”

Investigators found stains that may be blood at the Lempster home of Kenneth Carpenter, 53, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Meyer, of Goshen.