MOTORIST HELPS ELDERLY LADY FIND FAMILY
Woman found wandering on Salem Church Road


LINCOLNTON -- An unidentified motorist helps an elderly lady who appeared to be wandering around Salem Church Road.

The man brought the woman to the Lincolnton Police Department on Tuesday, and told Lt. Tony Hallman that he found the woman walking down the road towards High Shoals. She was hitch-hiking according to the man.

"She was close to home in all actuality," said Hallman, after the woman's son came to the department and picked her up. "She just forgot where she was."

Several department employees welcomed the woman and talked to her, learning her name was Grace Keener. The unidentified man brought Keener inside and sat her down at the conference table inside the department.

Lt. Hallman started making phone calls, trying to track down the woman's family.

Keener told records supervisor Cindy Sain why she was on the road.

"I was walking," said Keener. "That's all. I was walking."

After about 20 minutes, Keener's son came to pick her up at the police department.

Keener was uninjured.