My father's wife passed away a couple years ago, and since

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My father's wife passed away a couple years ago, and since they weren't legally married (they were together over 10 years and considered it a "spiritual" marriage, they were one of those odd couples) her biological children had all the rights to her body. My father was trying to scrape up enough money for a decent funeral or cremation, but they turned it down on principle because they always hated him, and they ended up not even being able to afford a cremation for her so the body was eventually disposed of by the state and neither half of the family got any of her ashes.

It's been some years now and my father is still really hurt over what happened, especially since there isn't even a grave site or anything left at all to help him feel any closure. Is there any way we could buy an empty grave or some sort of memorial for her? Even if it doesn't have the body/ashes buried there, some sort of physical thing dedicated to her might help to lift his spirits a little. Does anything like that exist? He lives in an apartment so he doesn't have any land he could put one on himself. I'm not sure what to search for if there's some other type of service that does this type of thing.

Any other ideas are appreciated too. Has anyone else ever dealt with a similar situation? What other things should I do to try and help him?

I feel bad saying this but pic is actually unironically related.