CEDAR LAKE, Ind. (AP) – A blind woman evicted in 2013 from her home of more than half a century is back in that lakeside cottage after a northwestern Indiana town granted her ownership for the rest of her life.

Sixty-eight-year-old Dolores Pittman lived for a year in a Lowell apartment after Lake County officials evicted her from her Cedar Lake home. The residence was sold in a tax sale due to unpaid taxes that arose from a tax-recording error.

After that error was discovered, Cedar Lake officials negotiated the lot's purchase and granted Pittman ownership last fall for the rest of her life.

She recently moved back home after volunteers made repairs to the house.

Pittman tells The (Munster) Times she awoke from a recent nap and realized, “I'm really home.”