New Hampshire authorities announced this week that they had finally identified the body of a woman discovered in a wooded area in the southern part of the state in 1971.

The body discovered in a then-wooded area of Bedford, New Hampshire — about 20 miles north of the Massachusetts border — just off the Everett Turnpike in the fall of 1971 has been identified as Massachusetts woman Katherine Ann Alston, 26, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said in a press release.

Alston, who was born and raised in Boston, went missing in 1971. Her parents and siblings had decided to move to Texas, where her father’s family was from, and she’d made plans to see them off at Boston’s Logan Airport but never showed up. They never heard from her again.

At that time, Alston — who had gotten married to fellow Boston University classmate Ralph Lawson Garrett, Jr. in 1967 but was amicably divorced at the time of her disappearance — was living with a roommate named David Cormier on Beacon Street near the Massachusetts State House in Boston, some 50 miles from where her body was found.

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There are no records that show that he or her family officially reported her missing. Her ex-husband has since died.