NEW ORLEANS — It’s been a 20-year-long struggle for investigators after Hurricane Katrina to positively identify every person whose body was recovered.

No positive identifications of any Louisiana victims have been made in the last decade.

Until now.

For almost two decades, the body of an elderly woman recovered from her Arabi home after Hurricane Katrina was entombed in the Hurricane Katrina Memorial in New Orleans, marked only as “unidentified.”

Now, investigators say they finally know her name: Dorothy Virginia Driggers Taquino.

Taquino, who was 81 years old when the storm hit in August 2005, was discovered in her flooded St. Bernard Parish home on Sept. 12, 2005. Along with hundreds of others, her body was taken to a temporary morgue set up in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, for an autops

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