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UPDATE: Missing Woman With Dementia Found Safe

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FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) -

UPDATE: An at-risk woman is back home safe with her family after she disappeared for several hours.

65-year-old Natalia Morris, of Visalia, suffers from dementia.

She wandered off while on a visit to Fresno with her husband on Wednesday.

She was found in the area of Peach and Shaw in Clovis overnight. Authorities believe she had hopped on a bus.

Highway Patrol officers picked her up and reunited her with her husband around 2 a.m. Thursday.


Fresno police and the C.H.P. are actively looking for a missing woman.

She is 65-year-old Natalia Morris and she suffers from dementia.

She left a Northeast Fresno business early Wednesday afternoon.

Natalia was at a business with her husband signing some paperwork for his retirement when she walked out and hasn't been seen since.

The California Highway Patrol along with Fresno police saturated the area looking for the woman. But so far nothing

Natalia also goes by the name of "Nellie."

She's 5 foot 4, weighs 145 pounds and has gray hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a purple shirt and black pants, and she has limited speech.

Her husband Charles Morris says, "She either went into Woodward Park looking for bottles, or she went and sat at a bus stop and got on a bus because she knows how to ride a bus, but she doesn't know where she is going. I would think that she would go to a populated area with a market and stores or whatever."

Morris and his wife were up from Visalia, so Natalia doesn't know the area.

Because she has limited speech abilities, police are concerned for her safety.

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