UPDATED: Missing Elderly Resident Located
Decatur Metro | December 15, 2014 | 5:12 pmUPDATE: DPD just followed up – “Mr Godbee was spotted and recognized and is now back home. Thank you.”
From Decatur PD’s Sgt. Jennifer Ross…
Decatur Police are currently attempting to locate a missing elderly resident. A Mattie’s Call has been issued for 73-year-old Travis Godbee. Godbee left his Decatur home in the area of Superior Avenue on 12-15-14 at approximately 10:00 am to visit a friend in Stone Mountain but never arrived. Godbee is described as a white male, 6’2, 155 lbs, slender build with brown eyes, gray hair and mustache, unshaven and was last seen wearing navy blue fleece pants, a gray flannel shirt and black overcoat. Godbee requires medications for congestive heart failure and has not officially been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer’s, but is currently experiencing symptoms of dementia. Godbee was recently released from the hospital but believed he was still in the hospital this morning while at home. Godbee was driving a white 1998 Mercedes E320 wagon displaying Georgia tag #PNX2833.
If you have any information on the whereabouts of Travis Godbee, please contact the Decatur Police Department ay 404/373-6551 or call 911.
Lots of activity at the residence and Travis car is home — let’s hope all is ok.
Yes, DPD just cancelled the alert. Good news!
So glad this worked out. Dementia, whether Alzheimer’s or a temporary reactive dementia or any other type, is a cruel disease. Now that we’ve got a better handle on heart disease and stroke, and tobacco-related disease should decline with the decline in smoking, dementia is going to be the challenge for us all as we age. Half of us will have it if we make it to age 90. And dementia doesn’t always wait until extreme old age but hits some in their fifties, sixties, seventies. Our society, residential care facilities, and health system are not ready.
And our kids are not ready.