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Ricky Gale Burgess, 52, Found #sonics

Konawa — Ricky Gale Burgess, 52, Konawa, went missing on Monday, March 8, his sister Cora Osburn said.  On Wednesday afternoon, he turned up at Konawa’s Sonic Drive-In.

“He got disoriented and he was spotted at the Sonic Drive-In in Konawa and (his family) got him home,” Terry Thomason of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said.

Osburn said her brother disappeared Monday after going to the unemployment office in Konawa.

“Two years ago, my little sister died of what they called Pick’s Disease,” Osburn said.  “It’s a young version of Alzheimer’s.”  Osburn said the disease deteriorates the frontal lobe of the brain.

Osburn’s and  Burgess’ sister died from the disease, Osburn said.

“We’re thinking that’s what happened to him because — she didn’t run off or anything — but it hit her pretty much the same way,” Osburn said.  Osburn said Burgess will be seeing a neurologist and getting an MRI soon.

“We’re going to go from there,” she said.  “He’s not the same person.  Something happened in his brain and that’s what happened to my little sister.”

She said Burgess was spotted at Sonic by his son, who works there.

“He said he just happened to look out the window and there he sat,” she said.  “(His son) said he just looked up and said, ‘Oh, my gosh.  There’s Daddy.’”

Osburn said the family is happy to have Burgess safe at home.

“We are so excited,” she said.