Friday, May 18, 2007

Search continues for missing woman in Cannon Co

WOODBURY, Tenn. (AP) -- Searchers continued looking Friday for an 86-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease whose car was found unoccupied on a mountain road.
Viella Estes has been missing since Tuesday on Short Mountain, a steep and heavily wooded area near Woodbury, about 18 miles east of Murfreesboro.Search and rescue teams were joined by volunteers searching several trails on the mountain where her car was found with her purse inside."She was raised on this mountain. She lived on various parts of this mountain and she knows this mountain," said Estes' daughter Betty Tanner."We're at a critical time," neighbor and family friend Linda Parton said Thursday afternoon -- more than two days since Estes was last known to have eaten and taken her medication.

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