The body of Mamou native Sadie Jo Thibodeaux was recovered Tuesday after a sailboat incident Sunday on Lake Pontchartrain, according to The Advocate.
Thibodeaux, 32, of Thibodeaux, was born in Mamou, the daughter of Michael and Deborah Thibodeaux.
The Advocate reported a New Orleans Police Department spokesman said she had been sailing with 43-year-old Michael Lee Farley on a 34-foot boat when they went into the water for unknown reasons.
Farley was recovered alive on Monday.
The sailboat was found near the University of New Orleans campus unoccupied and adrift, police said.
The Advocate reported Farley was rescued roughly one mile north of Lakeshore Drive about 7 a.m. Monday. He was not wearing a life vest and showed signs of having been in the water for a prolonged period, possibly the better part of a day, said NOPD Cmdr. Jeffrey Walls, who is in charge of officers patrolling neighborhoods along the lakefront.
The incident remains under investigation, the report stated.
An obituary stated Thibodeaux was a registered Louisiana lobbyist, employed by Roedel Parsons Koch Blanche Balhoff & McCollister, a law corporation, as a governmental affairs coordinator.
Other survivors listed in the obituary include sisters, Dody Thibodeaux and Nicole T Dowden; and a brother, Shannon Chapman.
