Joanne Dana Muntz Dameier

Age: 81

Summary: church organist and piano teacher who was hospitalized in critical condition at an intensive care unit for more than two months after contracting an infection during her evacuation in the aftermath of the devastating Hurricane Katrina tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in late August 2005 causing unprecedented death and destruction along the U.S. Gulf Coast with the highest number of lives lost and the most severe damage took place mostly in New Orleans, Louisiana where the flood protection system failed, in which it was ranked as one of the five deadliest hurricanes and the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States.

Cause of Death: Complications from an infection

Born: March 10, 1924

Died: November 16, 2005

Location: Tupelo, Mississippi