Sam & Elizabeth Hewatt 86 & 87, [FOUND SAFE] Loganville GA

[sarahhod]

Mattie's Call: elderly couple missing since Thursday

http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=9463909


Associated Press - December 5, 2008 9:14 AM ET

LOGANVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has issued a Mattie's Call for a missing edlerly couple in Walton County.

Officials said 86-year-old Sam Jefferson Hewatt and 87-year-old Elizabeth Couch Hewatt were last seen Thursday at their Loganville home. Officials said they might be in their 2003 champagne-colored Lincoln Town Car.

Anyone with information should call 911 or the Walton County Sheriff's office at (770) 464-0310.

[sarahhod]

Police Search For Missing Elderly Couple

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/18210496/detail.html#-

Friday, December 5, 2008 – updated: 6:33 pm EST December 5, 2008

LOGANVILLE, Ga. -- Police launched a search Friday for a missing elderly couple last seen Thursday afternoon.

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Sam Jefferson Hewatt, 86, and Elizabeth Couch Hewatt, 87, were last seen at their home at 3050 Sandy Creek Court in Loganville about 4 p.m. Thursday.

Sam Hewatt is 5'8" and about 150 pounds. He has thin gray hair he combs back and has a surgical scar on his nose.

Elizabeth Hewatt is 5'1" and weighs about 125 pounds. Her hair is white.

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John and Elizabeth Hewatt, missing since going out to eat Thursday afternoon.



The Hewatts may be traveling in a 2003, champagne colored Lincoln Town Car with Georgia license tag 384-DKX.

Police think the couple went out to eat at a local restaurant and then got lost. They both suffer from short-term memory loss and dementia.

Anyone with information about the Hewatts should call 911 or contact the Walton County Sheriff's Office at (770) 464-0310.

[SavannahStar]

Oh I hope they are found. :1187603408.CR.Mothe

[packy]

Another source.

http://www.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/ga._issues_a_matties_call_for_missing_elderly_coup le/49725/

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has
issued a Mattie’s Call for a missing edlerly couple in Walton
County.

Officials said 86-year-old Sam Jefferson Hewatt and 87-year-old
Elizabeth Couch Hewatt were last seen Thursday at their Loganville
home. Officials said they might be in their 2003 champagne-colored
Lincoln Town Car.

Anyone with information should call 911 or the Walton County
Sheriff’s office at (770) 464-0310.

[foxfarmboxers]

Oh dear Lord....I hope they are found soon.....

[Faith]

I pray they are found safe & soon.

[Claycat]

Oh No! How sad for this sweet couple!

[grammybears]

Oh how sad. I always worry about the elderly when they go missing. Especially if they have alzheimers or dementia. I pray that these dear people will be found safe and very soon.

[Claycat]

Good news! They have been found safe!

http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=124406

[Breezy]

Good news! They have been found safe!

http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=124406

Oh! Thank God!

[grammybears]

Oh this is such wonderful news. On top of that to have two more babies to love is just fantastic. I am so thankful they were found and safe. Nothing so bright as something like this to brighten up a day.

[sarahhod]

That's wonderful news.

[Roamer]

[/URL] From Claycat's link:

LOGANVILLE, Ga. -- The elderly couple missing from Walton County since Thursday night were found safe and sound Friday night just outside Birmingham, in Hoover, Ala.

86-year-old Sam Jefferson Hewatt and 87-year-old Elizabeth Couch Hewatt vanished Thursday just after 6:00 p.m. after leaving the Waffle House Restaurant in Loganville. They were supposed to be driving straight home.

Relatives believe the Hewatts got turned around and kept on driving.

Police said emergency dispatchers in Hoover, Ala. began receiving 911 calls about a minor traffic accident Friday evening involving the Hewatts who'd been driving on US 280 near the Hoover city limits -- which, according to a police spokesperson, is one of Alabama's busiest and most dangerous highways.

Hoover police officers responded and, according to police, the couple seemed confused about where they were, but were okay.

Family and friends, who had been searching with authorities in Walton, Gwinnett, and Rockdale Counties and beyond, were holding vigil at the Hewatts' Loganville home Friday night, which the Hewatts had already decorated for Christmas with a big, lighted tree in the living room. Everyone was praying for good news. They got their answer with a knock on the door.

"The Sheriff [of Walton County] came to the door and said, 'We have your mom and dad,'" said one of the Hewatts' two daughters, Mary Malone, beaming, "'and they're in Alabama!'"

"'And they're safe,'" their other daughter, Nancy Collins, said the Sheriff told them.

"That's about all we know," Malone said, "that they're there, they're safe, and they're waiting to be picked up."

Hoover police took the Hewatts to the fire station to rest and wait for their daughters and other family members to drive from Loganville Friday night / Saturday morning to bring them home.

11Alive's Jon Shirek asked if Sam and Elizabeth may have known someone in or near Birmingham.

"No," Malone said. "Maybe they got confused in the dark. I can't even imagine what they've been through" for the 24 hours they were out of contact with loved ones.

Sam and Elizabeth Hewatt were married on June 1, 1941. The next year Sam went off to war. He fought in the invasion of [URL="http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=124406#"]Europe (http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php) on the beaches of Normandy in June, 1944, and in the Battle of the Bulge the following winter.

Sam and Elizabeth owned and operated Hewatt's Grocery Store in Stone Mountain for about 40 years. They sold the business about 15 years ago.

Thursday night and Friday, investigators were unable to use routine, 21-Century techniques to track down the Hewatts, because, according to relatives, the Hewatts are "old school." They never use credit cards. They do not have a cell phone (http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=124406#). They are active retirees who simply enjoy their independence and their life together, "creatures of habit" who never (until now) go far from home as they drive their 2003 Lincoln Town Car -- which Sam keeps immaculate -- on errands and to visit relatives and friends.

"This'll be the merriest Christmas ever," Collins said, through tears of relief and joy, as she prepared to leave with the others to drive to Hoover for Sam and Elizabeth.

Two more reasons Hewatt family is celebrating -- the addition to the family of two, great-grandchildren, a boy and a girl, in the past ten weeks.

The boy was born two weeks ago, November 21. His parents named him Sam.

[foxfarmboxers]

Thank Goodness they are safe and sound, and back in their families loving arms.