Jessica Whitney Dubroff (May 5, 1988 – April 11, 1996) Little Jessica Dubroff was buried Monday amid a deluge of rain and tears. The drops that pelted her white-and-gold coffin proved an eerie reminder of the stormy crash that killed the 7-year-old pilot, her father and her flight instructor Thursday. Jessica's mother, Lisa Hathaway, led an unusual funeral - complete with folk songs, ponies, cows, flowers and remembrances of a little girl whose attempts to become the youngest cross-country pilot ended in tragedy. Recalling seeing her daughter in the funeral parlor, Hathaway told the 100 mourners, ''She was so beautiful, even with everything that happened to her body. I touched her, I kissed her, I held her.'' Meanwhile, CBS News reported that Jessica's father, Lloyd Dubroff, filed for bankruptcy two years ago - and unsuccessfully tried to hawk movie rights to her planned coast-to-coast flight. The network also said that Hathaway was on the brink of homelessness while still living in Falmouth, Mass., three years ago and made a public plea for handouts. Jessica's funeral service began at Hathaway's home in rural Pescadero, Calif., where the coffin, decorated with gold angels, sat in the mud outside. Mourners placed roses on the casket, as Hathaway stood in her kitchen with guitar-strumming pals, singing ''Turn Turn Turn,'' ''This Little Box,'' and other folk tunes. The coffin was later placed by Jessica's bedroom window, downhill from the small graveyard, near a cow pasture. ''The same cows that she saw from her bedroom window, she'll see from her grave,'' said Hathaway, a 41-year-old spiritual healer. ''Well, I will, anyway.'' Jessica's coffin was loaded onto a green pick-up truck, followed by mourners who trudged through the rain to the hillside graveyard. Hathaway, clad in lavender sweat pants and a purple sweatshirt, drove in her white Chevy Lumina with the hatch open, blaring New Age music. Jessica's 9-year-old brother Joshua, was dressed as a cowboy, and rode on a cart pulled by his sister's favorite pony, Strawberry. Plans for Joshua to fly over the procession in a plane with his flight instructor were scrapped because of the rain. He told reporters that he had ''only one or two lessons,'' and what he really wanted to do was pilot a helicopter. As ponies brayed and cows mooed, Hathaway stood at the gravesite and again defended her decision to let Jessica fly - saying she felt ''an open peace inside of my body'' when she learned of her daughter's death. Earlier, hundreds of mourners packed a California church Monday to bid a sad final farewell to Jessica's flight instructor, Joe Reid. Lloyd Dubroff, a 57-year-old computer consultant, was to be buried today in San Francisco