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Alert called off after Marshall woman found safe

Shirley Swift
Missouri State Highway Patrol
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today at 2:15 PM
Published 11:36 AM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Marshall woman with dementia who walked away from a nursing home amid extreme heat on Tuesday was found safe.

Shirley L. Swift, 89, was last seen at Hartland Residential Care Center at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to an alert issued by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. She suffers from dementia.

Marshall was under an extreme heat warning on Tuesday, and the heat index had climbed above 90 degrees by 11:15 a.m., according to official readings taken at Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport.

The Patrol did not give details about how Swift was found.

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