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Dedicated searchers find missing local woman
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FLORESVILLE — A 78-year-old Wilson County woman has been found safe after an 11-hour search on the Fourth of July. Carolyn Perkins of Floresville was reported missing from her care home residence in northwestern Wilson County at approximately 11:40 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, July 4. Shannon Perkins knew that her mother-in-law, an elderly woman suffering from dementia, would be unable to find her way back to her own property near C.R. 158 in Floresville. “She just went outside and didn’t come back,” Shannon said. Carolyn, who worked at NASA for 51 years, was not “into nature,” “not a...