Northeast Cobb Woman Found Safe

Ina Wray was discovered on Wade Green Road after going missing from her home Sunday morning.

Updated: 7:15 p.m. Cobb Police cancelled the Mattie's Call after she was discovered safe and in good health on Wade Green Road around 5:30 this afternoon. She has been returned to her family and there are no signs of foul play, police said. Original Story: 5:15 p.m. Mrs. Wray was found safe around 5:30 p.m. Sunday on Wade Green Road near the Cherokee County line, according to Cobb Police, who said she was in good health and has been returned home to her family. An elderly Northeast Cobb woman who suffers from dementia and who left home Sunday morning for the grocery store has not been seen since, according to Cobb Police. Cobb Police Spokesman Officer Michael Bowman said in a release that Ina Wray, 82, drove away from her home on Bryant …

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Missing Marietta Man Found Safe

Dudley Charles Lyon, 81, was discovered by Habersham Police Tuesday night.

Updated, Wednesday 9:55 a.m. Cobb Police said Lyon was found safe by the Habersham Police Departmet around 7 p.m. Tuesday and was "in good health and spirits." Police also indicated there were no signs of fou play. Original Report: Cobb Police are searching for an elderly Marietta man who left his home Tuesday morning in a pickup truck and hasn't been seen since. A Mattie's Call was issued out of East Cobb's Precinct 4 for Dudley Charles Lyon, 81, who left his home around 11:30 a.m. to go to the grocery store and has not returned, according to a police statement released around 4:45 p.m. Lyon's wife reported him missing, according to police, who said he was driving a 1994 white Dodge Dakota pickup with blue pinstripes. The license plate is…

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The More You Know: What's a Mattie's Call?

Patch finds out the difference between a Mattie's Call and other emergency alerts and how they are used.

Smyrna-Vinings residents were on the alert this weekend after the Smyrna Police Department issued a Mattie’s Call for a missing teen. But what is a Mattie’s Call? How does it differ from a Levi’s Call and how do police know when to issue one? Patch caught up with Public Information Officer Michael Smith to learn more. He explained that there are specific criteria that differentiate Mattie’s Calls from Levi’s Calls “The state—and it’s not just Georgia—have set it so the system isn’t overly used,” he said. “When we use it, we want people to pay attention and as with anything else, if you get too much of it and it’s not pertinent information people start ignoring it. That’s what we don’t want from any of those things.” Smith used this weekend…

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Update: Kennesaw Man Found Safe

Davonn Tyree Browder, 19, was found in an Atlanta park more than two days after leaving home.

Kennesaw resident Davonn Tyree Browder, 19, is safe and back with his family. Atlanta police found the man, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, in a park in the city around midnight when they responded to a report of a suspicious person, Cobb County police reported. Browder showed no signs of foul play and just wanted to go home, Cobb police said in a news release, and he was in good health and good spirits when he returned to his family early today. A 19-year-old Kennesaw man with paranoid schizophrenia is missing, and Cobb County police are asking for the public’s help to find him. Davonn Tyree Browder was last seen at his home in the 2900 block of Owens Place Point on Monday, police spokesman Officer Mike Bowman said. Although …

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Update: Woman with Alzheimer's Safe

Evelyn Satterfield, 81, who drove away from her Northeast Cobb home around 2 p.m. Monday, ran out of gas in Commerce.

Evelyn Satterfield is safe. The 81-year-old Northeast Cobb resident, who has Alzheimer's, was found by a Commerce police officer around 9 p.m. after her family's silver 1998 Buick LeSabre ran out of gas along Interstate 85. Satterfield is unhurt, and her family is driving the 80 miles to pick her up and bring her home. An 81-year-old Northeast Cobb woman with Alzheimer’s is missing, and the Cobb County Police Department has asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to issue a Mattie’s Call to help find her. Evelyn Satterfield of the 900 block of Velma Drive disappeared around 2 p.m. Monday while her husband was out of the home for a short time, police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said. She is believed to have driven away in a silver 1998 …

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Northeast Cobb High Five

Heat Breaks; Woman Dies; Sports Galore

Here's what you need to know to start the day July 15.

1. It’s as if we’ve sprung ahead to fall. The high on this mostly cloudy, breezy day will be only about 82, the National Weather Service says, and we’ll likely see more showers and thunderstorms, especially after 2 p.m. The overnight low will be about 71. 2. The Mattie’s Call for a missing 57-year-old woman from Northeast Cobb did not end well. Annie L. Smith’s body was found Thursday morning in DeKalb County. It’s not clear how the woman, who left a nursing home on foot, wound up so far away. 3. Our Bites Nearby feature this week heads down to Marietta Square to try Old Ephraim’s Restaurant and Catering. Return to Northeast Cobb Patch later today to read all about it. Also coming up today is a preview of the weekend’s garage sales. 4. We’…

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Missing Woman Found Dead in DeKalb

Investigators issued a Mattie’s Call for Annie L. Smith after she went missing from the Ashley Manor Personal Care Home.

The search for a missing 57-year-old Northeast Cobb woman with dementia has come to a tragic end. A body matching Annie L. Smith's description was found in the 1400 block of Hosea Williams Drive Thursday morning, Pat Bailey, director of the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A neighbor noticed the body and called police, Bailey said. Atlanta police responded to the vacant home and found the body on the back porch about 12:30 p.m., Cobb County police said in a news release Thursday evening. The body was confirmed to be Smith, police said. Anyone with information about how Smith made it 30 miles from her home and died is asked to call the Cobb police Crimes Against Persons Unit at 770-499-3945.

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Woman Missing from Nursing Home

Northeast Cobb resident Annie L. Smith, 57, suffers from dementia and asthma.

Cobb County police are searching for a 57-year-old woman with dementia and asthma who is missing from the Ashley Manor Personal Care Home at 532 Dickson Rd. in Northeast Cobb. The police Crime Against Persons Unit has asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to issue a Mattie's Call for Annie L. Smith, who is believed to have walked away from Ashley Manor this evening. Smith did not have her medications when she left the nursing home, police said. She is 5-foot-3 and 150 pounds with brown eyes and short, gray hair. She was wearing black pants, a royal-blue shirt and a black zip-up jacket with a hood when she was last seen at Ashley Manor, police said. Anyone with information about Smith is asked to call 911 or 770-499-3911.

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