See, a position she held until 2001. In 2005, Boggs's home on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter sustained moderate wind damage from Hurricane Katrina. In 2006, she was awarded the Congressional Distinguished Service Award for her time in the House of Representatives. Boggs was a member of Sigma Gamma Rho, one of the four traditionally African-American sororities in the United States. The Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology Building at Tulane is named in her honor. Boggs and her daughter, Cokie Roberts, received the Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research in 2013. Death Boggs died of natural causes at her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland on July 27, 2013, at age 97. A funeral Mass was held on August 1, 2013 at St. Louis Cathedral at 615 Pere Antoine Alley in New Orleans. Interment followed later in the day at St. Mary's Cemetery in New Roads, Louisiana. Governor Bobby Jindal ordered all U.S. and state flags in Louisiana to fly at half staff until August 2 in Mrs. Boggs' memory. See also Women in the United States House of Representatives References Further reading Boggs, Lindy, with Katherine Hatch. Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1994 Ferrell, Thomas H., and Judith Haydel. "Hale and Lindy Boggs: Louisiana's National Democrats." Louisiana History 35 (Fall 1994): 389–402. Tyler, Pamela. "Silk Stockings & Ballot Boxes: Women & Politics in New Orleans, 1920 - 1965". University of Georgia Press, 1996. Carrick, Bess. "Lindy Boggs: Steel and Velvet". Documentary film chronicles Mrs. Boggs' career in politics and features Cokie & Steve Roberts, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. John Lewis, former House Speaker Tom Foley, and scholars, Dr. Patrick Maney, & Dr. Pamela Tyler. Produced by Bess Carrick with Louisiana Public Broadcasting, 2006. Airdate 2006–present, nationwide via PBS-Plus. Maney, Patrick J. "Hale Boggs: The Southerner as National Democrat" in Raymond W Smock and Susan W Hammond, eds. Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries (1998) pp 33–62. External links Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame Oral History Interview with Lindy Boggs from Oral Histories of the American South |- |- |- |- 1916 births 2013 deaths 20th-century American diplomats 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American women politicians 21st-century American diplomats Ambassadors of the United States to the Holy See American women ambassadors Boggs family Catholics from Louisiana Catholics from Maryland Claiborne