Dorothy Virginia Driggers Taquino, 81, was identified nearly two decades after dying at home during Hurricane Katrina. Taquino was found dead in her inundated Arabi residence on 12 September 2005 and her body was moved to a temporary morgue in St Gabriel with hundreds of others. Investigators struggled to confirm her identity in the chaotic aftermath, and a genetic sample from a niece initially proved insufficient for positive identification. Taquino was interred in an unmarked grave at a New Orleans memorial for unidentified Katrina victims and will now be moved to a burial plot she had selected in St Bernard Parish.
Taquino was found dead in her inundated home on 12 September 2005, according to WWL. Her body was moved along with hundreds of others to a temporary morgue erected in St Gabriel, Louisiana, about 65 miles (105km) west of New Orleans, the site of catastrophic federal levee failures during Katrina and where many of the roughly 1,400 people who died as a result of the storm had lived.
All I can say is that she's finally going to be where she belongs, niece Jean Driggers told WWL evening news anchor Devin Bartolotta. Driggers recalled how she and other relatives had been unable to reach her Aunt Dot who was widowed and lived in the New Orleans-area suburb of Arabi, which was ultimately devastated by the storm when they decided to evacuate shortly before Katrina's arrival on 29 August 2005.
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