The family planned an invitation-only service at Holy Trinity Church in El Dorado Hills. Le will be laid to rest at a cemetery in nearby Rescue, a family spokesman said Monday.
"Now the family is away from where the crime happened, and I think that's probably good," the Rev.
Dennis Smith, a New Haven pastor, told the Yale Daily News. "There are still major events ahead of them with the funeral and all that it entails."
The 24-year-old pharmacology student was killed on Sept. 8 - five days before her wedding - and hidden in a Yale lab basement. A lab technician, Ray Clark 3rd, 24, has been charged with the murder.
Smith said the Le family felt some closure after Clark's arrest.
Chris Le, Annie's younger brother, told an ABC station in Sacramento Sunday his sister "lived a good life" and said his family wants privacy.
The brother said his family wants people to donate money to the I Have a Dream Foundation, a non-profit that helps low-income families afford college.
Le's fiance, Columbia grad student Jonathan Widawsky, 24, emerged from his parent's Huntington, L.I. home Monday and told reporters he was "not in a position to talk."
He and his family will hold a memorial service for Le at Temple Beth El in Huntington on Wednesday night. Back in New Haven, the lab where Le's body was found reopened as the campus tries to move past the troubling events of the past two weeks.
Anton Bennett, the pharmacology professor who was Le's adviser, said she was "a bright light of enormous potential prematurely extinguished."
"The tragic loss of Annie Le, who had become an integral member of our laboratory, now seeds another source of inspiration," he said. "Annie Le's work will continue. We will draw upon the energy of Annie Le's life to help us fulfill our efforts of striving to make a difference in this world."
Investigators said Monday they don't expect to make more arrests in the murder, indicating that they believe Clark acted alone.
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