Valerie T. Zrinsky

Age: 87

Summary: talented artist, painter, calligrapher, storyteller and a descendant of Scottish poet Robert Burns who designed crests and was known for painting delicate images on eggshells and putting tiny, carved wooden figurines inside it, who had illustrated a book and worked with schoolchildren for Scottish Society of the Gulf Coast programs.

Cause of Death: Drowned in the floodwaters during Hurricane Katrina

Born: April 8, 1918

Died: August 29, 2005

Location: Ocean Springs, Mississippi