Great story. Glad she was found. Speedy recovery.

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Looks like the shift from MSNBC to NBC hasn't helped the reporting too much:

They said she may have suffered broken bones but spoke rescuers.

I noticed that flub,too!!

For once some good news. Bless her heart, 97 years young and "tougher than a pine knot". That she is.

I cant wait until I am old enough to get lost like this. Every day will seem like an adventure! I'm glad she is ok, adventures are best when you live through them.

ldo - the caption under the photo is even better:

Edna Clay is seen in a photo handoued by the Sheriff's Office in Vinton County, Ohio

Typo of "handouted" or what?

@Kornfed my thought exactly!! LOL

Like a pet tortoise how GD far can a 97 year old get?

Some good news for a change. Go granny.

Like a pet tortoise how GD far can a 97 year old get?

Pretty far. Depends on the 97 year old. Some are even still driving.

What a tough old lady. She'll make 100 for sure.

I don't mean for this to be taken the wrong way when I say that this lady is "one tough old broad". I mean it as a compliment. Way to go Edna..

She mistook the creek bed for her own bed. That can happen to 97-year-olds.

Don't put her in a home with strangers Lana? What are they supposed to do with her, get a zip line and and collar and then let her go in the back yard? She has dementia, she needs 24 hour care and that's where people with that kind of illness get it, in homes with complete strangers. Just the facts...

@devils son, I had a Great Uncle who worked for my Home Town until he was 96 and got pensioned off. That was when they started giving out pensions in like 1949-50. He could tell you stories about shoveling ahead a team of horses so horse powered snow plow could get to plow the snow. He died at 99 and could get plenty far on a pair of legs in a short time. Keep in mind that he was doing this work since around the early 1870s or so. Before the autos and Trucks. Just for interest to some people, if your not aware, The first Gas delivery tanks were horse drawn wagons going to the fuel pumps.

I very happy the lady was found and all is OK. We actually owe a lot to these older folks.

12 kids and not one can help take care of the old lady figures just how americans are thoughtless mofos, now one of you watch over your poor mom so she doesnt die from going on a walk.

wow, 97 and raised 12 kids, and I bet those kids knew to respect others. She is healthy because she most likely raised her own vegis. She refuses to take vitamins, well, you get enough from the foods you eat, good for you edna. And she lives in WV? She is probably one of those elders that smoked a pipe as alot of women did. You go girl!

A sip of whiskey is probably the only medication she takes. My grandparents were the same way except the men died earlier (80s) but none the less worked hard their whole lives, and were healthy. Too bad we have become couch dependent, keep moving is what the old man always said.

Are they sure she is alive? She looks like a Zombie

joy, yeah, they knew to respect others so much that not one of the twelve took good enough care of her to keep her from getting lost. How many in-laws and adult grandchildren are also in that count of family that let gramma wander off? My husbands parents are in their 80's with only two children and the entire family of children, grandchildren and in-laws make sure they are safe at all times.

Huskergal, yes "some are even still driving" and that's really scary!!

Maybe the spry old gal was still on the move..?

I'm 60 I figure I am almost half way through my life.

I'm 63, and expect at least another 40 years!

I'm glad she was found safely.

I hope they don't put her in a home where she will be confined to a wheelchair and end up in a diaper in a few weeks. I have worked in a lot of Nursing Homes over the years and know that independent people like her do not do well once they lose their freedom. She just needs a little closer monitoring by the family.

I agree, and that loss of sparkle and fast-tracking of decline is just the start. I didn't work in NH but saw many things, esp when they didn't know I was there. I usually went to do Pet Therapy, and now, as an atty, I see the NH abuse cases that come in. The reality of the person sitting in front of me is far worse than what I found doing an 80-page research paper on NH Abuse & Neglect, and it is hard for me to stay professional and not want to put my arms around them as they explain what happened. However, she can get home health care aides-in NY, not too hard to get, but then again, NY's Medicaid system is one of the more highly compensated ones (and like others, needs more clamping down on fraud). Friends and I do this all the time-part of Estate Planning, just like Pet Trusts, wills, Living Wills, Power of Attorney forms, Health Care Proxies, etc.

you are going from a creep to a trot? sounds like you report for MSN...... Sorry.

mo , sounds like you're an idiot .... sorry

Let's put it this way, young pups, I'm 65 and have Hair well below my shoulders. Am Vietnam, Desert shield and Storm Warrior, Veteran. I can still bench 160 lds and take no crap from no one. I don't think I am going to keep going on long like this myself, I doudt I will ever make it near 97. You do realize that people who are near a hundred years old are a walking history books. They should be Revered and not put on a shelf. Got something that needs doing and can't figure out how to do it? Talk to an old person, they know how to do things that books and computers can't tell you. To the wonderful 97 year old lady in Ohio, I tip my Helmet to.

wow that's amazing wow 97yrs and made it through 4 days needing help you all ready know God was on her side

I don't expect to live that long, my family history shows we die relatively young somewhere between 65 and 75. I am glad about that, in this day and age if you don't have enough money to survive on or enough kids to kick in to support you then you will not survive anyway.

I am so glad to hear about this "young" lady....I love our older people. It is ashamed how this world treats our older people. A lot of times the family try to help but can't do anything with a strong willed person. It is wierd though that noone looked around the nieghberhood but like someone said she could have been moving around. I just hate that the Obama package that is headed our way will not help older people so if they are not as tough as pine knots they will never make it. This lady has done a lot of things right tho. you can tell. May God continue to bless her.

well apparently it was her time to go and come back.

"laying on her back"--is that another language? She was lying on her back.

.........sorry that the message's here at MSN do not meet your standards ( in reference to "laying" instead of "lying" ). Maybe you should seek message's of a more scholarly nature elsewhere..........

denouement:.............sorry that the message's posted here at MSN do not meet your standards ( in reference to "laying" instead of "lying"). Maybe you should seek message's that are posted of a more scholarly nature elsewhere. Please forgive us for not meeting "your" standards of quality message writing that you have so well demonstrated in the past indicated by your history on "newsvine". Let us all yield to the master of message writing......................

QLL, some idiots think they are the grammer police by asking if that is a new language. I'd bet Mrs Edna could teach denouement a lot more than spending 2 to 4 years of college!! I'm just saying em like I see em, LOL. From all the way down "South Louisiana". Happy for Mrs Edna be found safe. And God bless her for many more years...

Correct you are, "lying" would be the proper word--my mistake. But my grandmother was Southern, so she would have said "laying" as I did, lol. (That was supposed to be a joke, for those without a sense of humor, so all you Southerners don't jump down my throat, too.) My reference to the "language" was only because there seemed to be words missing in the sentence, which changed the meaning of the sentence, not that it was poor grammar, blue. I just thought it was funny, people, and the story sparked a memory that made me feel good to share--my mistake again. Good grief!

By the way, they did fix the error.

Getting 100% of spelling and typo's correct is about as tough as getting Edna to carry a compass.

Glad for her, sad for spelling and grammar checkers. If you can read thru any of the writers mistakes and still understand the story, whats the point?

I have to agree with the "spelling and grammar checkers". It isn't just this article, it's persistent among the reporting presented by MSN/NBC. Traditionally there has been a degree of professionalism associated with journalism, and while you generally won't catch every single mistake, it was unheard-of to find multiple errors in every single piece presented. In today’s world we have word processing tools that take literally a few seconds to run to check both spelling and grammar, so there's simply no excuse for it other than people being lazy and sloppy. In this instance you can generally read the story (though it took me a moment to figure out what they meant by "but spoke rescuers", but sometimes it's more difficult to understand what's being conveyed. On top of that, it's distracting.

yrr speleen is atroshus.

I, too, agree with the spelling and grammar checkers. If you have to spend time deciphering an article, you might as well have elementary school kids write the articles. I thought journalists had to have degrees.

On another note, you go, Edna Clay. Same to her kids if they don't stick her in a nursing home.

I didnt even notice the spelling errors! This strong blessed Lady survived healthily (hope I spelled that right) haha.... Come on, Whats the point of commenting on those trivial details? Society is plumiting as I speak.

TT1, yes GRAMMAR is taking a beating!!! Couldn't help it, sorry! Hope if I live to be 97 I'm in half as good a shape as this tough lady!!

now if you axed me I's gotsta say she shood hav staysd in her betsroom. This is common talking I here coming from blacks and the young white wanna be kids. I would say a better education is in order.

In Florida they have a Silver Alert!

Come on....this is a happy story & it has to know have a political undertone! Geez!

BRCAII: I agree. Now, would you mind scrolling on down to post #25 and saying it again. Those of us who don't see politics in everything will appreciate it.

Dang! RJ, you had to drag politics into this! Were the "entitlements" that your 70 year old friends wait for every month, by any chance Social Security? You know, where you pay into this kind of insurance fund for 50-60 years (while loaning the U.S. government from your funds, when it gets a little short), so that when you get older, and retire you'll have something to retire on? Is that what you're talking about? WELL!! THAT'S NOT AN "ENTITLEMENT", they are just getting their money back, plus a return on their investment. You Dolt!!

Robert! Does your mommy know you're using the computer?

I am glad you keep an eye on your neighbor. That's really great:)

As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

Seriously? This is somehow political? Get a life. Your handlers really do own your opinion.