A woman’s body, recovered Monday from the banks of the Dog River reservoir, was positively identified Wednesday as that of Debra Hooper of Carroll County, missing since last week’s floods.

Douglas County Coroner Randy Daniel said identification was made at the State Crime Lab in Atlanta about 3 p.m. from finger prints.

“The body was released to Couch, Garner and Cole Funeral Home,” Daniel said.

She is the seventh Douglas County fatality from the Sept. 21 flooding, which occurred in the early morning hours after a downpour dumped 21 inches of rainfall in some western portions of the county. Ten people died statewide.

The body was found Monday afternoon by a search team walking the banks of Dog River. The body had washed downstream from where deputies had last Friday found Hooper’s Jeep Liberty in Mobley Creek, off Georgia Highway 5. Hooper’s purse, with her identification, was found in the submerged vehicle.

Although a formal search was suspended Monday, a crew continued to walk the banks and discovered her body about 3 p.m., nearly three miles from her wrecked vehicle.

Hooper, 44, of Whitesburg, was last seen on Sept. 20 around 9:30 p.m. after visiting a friend in Villa Rica. Hooper’s grown daughter filed a missing person report four days later after being unable to contact her mother.

--Bennett Rolan of the Times-Georgian contributed to this article.