A sad story here. There were funds for a fancy funeral but a fraud artist appropriated her properties. The state has said that, having auctioned off her assets, it will come to be. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/nyregion/first-a-mistaken-burial-as-a-pauper-then-the-indignities-piled-up.html
A lawyer for the public administrator's office explained it this way, "A destitute person looks just the same as a person with a million dollars in real estate if there’s no one there to tell a story.”