Brisbane bus crash: Three final words Tia Cameron, 18, told her boyfriend before she was fatally pinned to wall by an out-of-control bus – as he reveals the dreams she will never see materialise

A teenager who died in a devastating bus crash told her boyfriend she loved him during their last conversation.

Tia Cameron, 18, was tragically killed after a bus mounted a curb and pinned her against a building in Brisbane’s CBD just after 5pm on Friday, March 8.

Her emotional funeral service at Brisbane’s Hillsong Theater on Thursday morning heard Ms Cameron always wanted to be a mother, travel the world and buy a house with her partner Hayden Mckinlay.

A powerful tribute read on behalf of Mr Mckinlay spoke of their love and future plans together, the Courier mail reported.

“I will miss our little phone calls forever, I will wait every day for the phone to ring just to hear your voice. “The last words we said to each other were, ‘I love you,’ and we really meant it,” he said.

‘We had a lot of our lives planned together, buying our first house next year, going on trips.

‘Tia wanted to go to New Zealand at the end of this year to see the snow and her family. Our life together was so happy.’

Mr Mckinlay said March 8 was the day he lost his ‘sunflower’, the girl of his dreams.

“Tia was my world and my rock, we shared everything together… I can’t imagine what my life will be like now without my forever Tia in it,” he said.

Friends and family who attended the funeral remembered the “bold” and “vibrant” young woman, many of whom, including her aunt Karma Te Awhitu, had just died.

“My dear T, standing here today saying goodbye to you is the most painful thing imaginable,” Ms Te Awhitu said.

“I fell in love with you from the moment you were born and I never stopped loving you.

“You brought sunshine into my life and as you look around here today it is clear that you have done the same for many other people.”

The aunt said she would miss her niece’s laugh, “questionable” sense of humor and “dorkiness.”

‘You had plans to go to college and continue your education. You had plans to travel. You always talked about being a mother, even from a very young age, and I knew that one day you would be a great mother.

“I’m so sorry, buddy, that this was taken from you, but I promise to keep your memory alive… fly high my angel.”

Funeral celebrant Dawn Louise said: “You wouldn’t wonder what (Tia) was thinking because she would tell you.

‘In her work at the Brisbane Club she was the perfect reception person, the orchestrator of first impressions and the impression she left was always a good one.’

Mrs Louise also said Mrs Cameron longed to be a mother, ‘but in the meantime adopted and cared for a menagerie of animals’.

An emotional funeral service heard on Thursday morning that Tia Cameron (pictured) always wanted to be a mother, travel the world and buy a house with her partner Hayden Mckinlay

Tia Cameron (pictured) is remembered for her huge laugh and for her ‘dorkiness’

The celebrant added: “She was an old soul. She gave her mother a purpose in life and when she left us, she reminded us all of the shortness of life.”

Mr Mckinlay’s mother, Christine Melrose, has a GoFundMe page for Mrs Cameron’s family.

On Saturday, Brisbane City Council said the brakes on the bus that killed Cameron had been tested last month.

Among the mourners at her funeral were Brisbane mayor Adrian Schrinner and his wife Nina.

Pictured is the bus that killed Tia Cameron in Brisbane on Friday March 8 at around 5pm