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Wallace Collins Jr. Found

OKLAHOMA CITY -- An 85-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease has been found unharmed in Stigler, police said.Officers had been looking for Wallace Collins Jr. and had issued a Silver Alert for him.Police said Collins was found unharmed in Stigler and will be returning home.

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.

Oklahoma Silver Alerts On The Web

In the early 1960s, Cassel’s uncle, Luther Hamit, who was in his late 80s, walked away from a nursing home and was found frozen to death in a plowed field.

Cassel, of El Reno, is a retired nurse who worked in long-term care centers. When she became president of the Silver-Haired Legislature, she began working on a plan to alert people statewide when an older adult goes missing.

Last year there were 39 Silver Alerts statewide. So far this year, there have been 16. Silver Alerts started in Oklahoma in 2007.

A Web site is expected to launch in about two months that will feature all active Silver and Amber alerts and include information about past alerts with the conclusion of the search.

Like Amber Alerts, which are issued for missing children, a Silver Alert may flash a photo of a missing person on an electronic highway billboard and can be picked up by media Web sites statewide in minutes.

The new Web site is designed to help with the search, said Gene Thaxton, coordinator of the Department of Public Safetys’ Amber and Sliver alert programs and director of telecommunications.

If someone catches a report on a missing senior adult and thinks they see the person later, the Web site could help, Thaxton said. He said people can go to the Web site to get a longer and closer look at the missing person’s photograph and read details about the alert.

A recent Silver Alert was issued for Jesse Kilgore, 82, whose scent was tracked by dogs to a bridge about two miles from his Lincoln County home near Kendrick. Then the trail was lost and a ground search was exhausted the night a snowstorm started moving into the area.

Kilgore’s daughter-in-law said she thinks he is still alive somewhere.

"Maybe it is just my way of coping,” Linda Kilgore said. "I just don’t feel that he is dead. I feel that he is alive.”

On Wednesday in Garfield County, Edward Sutter, 88, was found sitting in his parked car along a roadway.

A Silver Alert had been in effect for three days when he was found alive.

On Feb. 4, a Silver Alert was issued for Ollie Arterberry, 78, who walked out of Grace Living Center-Wildewood, 1913 NE 50. His body was found about 2:15 p.m. Sunday at a vacant house across the street, police said.

Linda Kilgore said her father-in-law talked about Southern California a lot, but his car is not missing and there are no clues as to what happened.

There was just one footprint found outside his home, but the ground was mostly frozen when he disappeared.

She said he never went outside without his flashlight, day or night. He was in the early stages of dementia but had never walked away and gotten lost before.

"I don’t understand because he vanished into thin air,” Linda Kilgore said. "Even when we come to the end of this journey we probably still won’t.”

Cassel said people who have dementia and Alzheimer’s disease continue to walk away from home. They may appear to be fine to others who do not know the person is lost.

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Ollie Arterberry, 78, was found dead

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A body found at a vacant house on Sunday afternoon has been identified as a man who walked away from an assisted living center last week.

Police confirmed that Ollie Arterberry, 78, was found dead near a front porch at 1900 NE 50th Street.

Investigators said they believe Arterberry's death to be from natural causes. However, the official cause of death will be determined by the Oklahoma medical examiner's office.

Arterberry walked away at about 8 p.m. Wednesday from the Grace Living Center, located at 1913 NE 50th Street.

Police said Arterberry suffered from dementia, hallucinations and high blood pressure.

Ollie Arterberry Missing Senior

Ollie Arterberry left a Grace Living Center location in Oklahoma City about 8 p.m. Wednesday and hasn't been seen since.

He has dementia, high blood pressure and suffers from hallucinations, a bulletin from the OHP states. His conditions put him in serious danger of injury or death, the OHP reported.

Arterberry is black and was last seen wearing a blue jean jacket, plaid shirt, blue jean pants and cowboy boots. He left the facility, 1913 Northeast 50th Street, on foot.

Anyone with information on Arterberry's whereabouts is asked to call police. His photograph was not immediately available.

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Kenneth Dean Cable Missing

Oklahoma City police are looking for a 70-year-old man who walked out of Integris Baptist on Wednesday.

Kenneth Dean Cable went to the hospital to seek treatment for pain, but got irritated and left before he was seen, police Lt. Ganille Shockley said. Cable is about 6 feet tall, slender, with brown hair and green eyes. He was driving a navy blue 2005 Dodge Ram with an Oklahoma tag 422-bbq.

Missing in Oklahoma City

OKLAHOMA CITY - Police have issued a Silver Alert for a 77-year-old woman who didn't show up for an appointment on Saturday.

Officers said Mary Katherine Mount was supposed to meet with friends at the Biltmore Hotel on Saturday afternoon but she didn't show up.Her family said she left the Cape Cod Condos between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. They said she doesn't really like to drive on the highway and they worry she may be lost."I've been up all night looking," said her son, Hoy Mount. "My son started this morning and we've been driving around all day."He said she may have early signs of dementia but nothing that would indicate to them that she would get lost."We checked a lot of places 15 times and we still can't find her," he said. "We just don't know which was to go, so we need help."Mount is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds and has gray hair.She was last seen driving a white 2005 Hyundai Accent with Oklahoma license plate number 360 AVT.Anyone who knows where the woman may be should call

911 immediately.

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