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Mt. Ayr Woman, Alzheimer’s Victim Found Okay

By on November 5, 2012

(AP)  A MISSING 74-YEAR-OLD WOMAN HAS BEEN FOUND NEAR A CORNFIELD IN SOUTHERN IOWA.

SHIRLEY MARTIN, OF MOUNT AYR  WAS LAST SEEN AT HER HOME FRIDAY AFTERNOON.  RINGGOLD COUNTY CHIEF DEPUTY SHERIFF ROB HALEY SAYS MARTIN HAS ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE.  A SEARCH PARTY GATHERED SATURDAY MORNING, AND ONE OF ITS MEMBERS, A RELATIVE OF MARTIN, FOUND HER LYING IN A SHALLOW HOLE AT THE EDGE OF THE CORNFIELD.

MARTIN WAS FLOWN TO MERCY MEDICAL CENTER IN DES MOINES AND WAS LISTED IN GOOD CONDITION.