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Show Police seek missing woman r y i Pleasant Grove Police are heading a search for a missing 83-year-old woman. Lt. Tom Paul said Etta Snyder is believed to have walked away from the Alpine Valley Care Center, 25 Alpine Avenue, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday. Care center personnel, family members, police and volunteers from nearby LDS Wards searched the neighborhood and between Pleasant Grove and American Fork Sunday afternoon and all day Monday to no avail, Paul said. "The description we have on Mrs. Snyder is that she is 83 years of age, 5-feet 3-inches 3-inches tall, 106 lbs., with dark colored hair, and wearing glasses," Paul said. He: said she walks slightly slumped over and suffers' from5 Parkinson's Disease. . "We aren't sure what she was wearing when she left," the officer said, adding she may have had on a housecoat. "She often wears her clothing layered and this may be the case now," he said. He described her as being "somewhat forgetful" but said she "often surprises you with what she does remember." She has walked away in the past, but has usually been found nearby by Care Center personnel, or has come back herself. She has been known lo ask for and obtain rides, however. Paul said Mrs. Snyder has a sister in Monticello, and a daughter in Colorado. Other relatives, including two granddaughters, reside in the Salt Lake area. Two teenagers reported seeing someone fitting Mrs. Snyder's description going towards American Fork Sunday, Paul said, and a couple driving in the area sometime later believed they saw her in the same area, only going towards Pleasant Grove. Searchers were combing fields, ditches, and buildings in the area, the officer said. Mrs. Snyder had resided at the Care Center for approximately a year, Paul said. She had made her home in American Fork for many years. Anyone having any information on her whereabouts is asked to contact the Pleasant Grove Police Department: Depart-ment: "-i, i ; , ;. Etta Snyder |