Hurricane Katrina victim identified 20 years later: ‘finally where she belongs’

Dorothy Taquino, 81, died in 2005 and was identified shortly before the storm’s 20th anniversary. Taquino is finally being moved to the burial plot she chose. Photograph: Courtesy of WWL Louisiana

A woman who died at home during Hurricane Katrina in a community outside New Orleans, but who remained unidentified for nearly two decades, has finally been named before the storm’s 20th anniversary on Friday.

The woman, who was identified with the help of New Orleans’s CBS affiliate, WWL Louisiana, has been named as Dorothy Virginia Driggers Taquino, 81.