The woman who drowned while saving her daughter from the sea at Ruakaka will be buried overlooking the beach she loved.
Fiona Gooder died on Sunday afternoon only 30 minutes after texting her husband Bruce Martin to say she was "having a fantastic time in paradise".
After Ms Gooder's funeral at One Tree Point on Friday, she will be buried at Waipu Cove cemetery overlooking Ruakaka Beach and Bream Bay, in a plot her husband has chosen because "it is so beautiful and I know she would think so, too".
Ms Gooder, 43, had been enjoying the beach with family and friends when she sent the last text message to her husband who was on business in San Francisco.
When her 8-year-old foster daughter Arly and a friend got into trouble, Ms Gooder and others raced into the water to save them.