Updated: 5:01 PM PST February 9, 2021
OKANOGAN COUNTY, Wash. The Okanogan County Sheriff said a 77-year-old woman from Tonasket who was the subject of a Silver Alert was found dead in Ferry County Tuesday.
Okanogan County Sheriff Tony Hawley said Alberta Russell s death was likely caused by exposure to the elements.
Ferry County Sheriff Ray Maycumber said a grater operator reported seeing a vehicle on the side of Karamip Road at 12:49 p.m. Tuesday and they thought someone might have been inside. Maycumber said the road is a Forest Service road and during this time of year it is odd to see a car. He said a deputy responded to the area and found Russell s body.
Previously missing 77-year-old Okanogan County woman found dead
February 9, 2021 1:26 PM Erin Robinson
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OKANOGAN CO. Wash. A 77-year-old woman who went missing in Okanogan County on Monday was found dead.
The Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office issued a Silver Alert for Alberta Russell on Tuesday, reporting that she left her home at 12 p.m. Monday and said she wanted to check on her father’s home. Her father passed away in the 1990s.
The Sheriff’s Office said she was disoriented when she left and has not driven in years.
Russell was found dead Tuesday off Highway 20 and Karamip Road on Sherman Pass, according to the Ferry County Sheriff’s Office.
Officials with Lone Star Ballet recently announced they have officially canceled the production of “The Nutcracker,” which was planned to be performed in late February at the Amarillo Civic Center Complex.
According to previous Globe-News reports, the performance was originally scheduled for Dec. 11-13. Officials from the ballet stated it was tentatively scheduled to be performed Feb. 27-28 at the complex.
“We rescheduled, we picked a weekend in February,” said Craig Henderson, executive director of the Lone Star Ballet. “That was as quick as we could get in without knowing if they were going to be open or not. We continued to rehearse and continued to plan to do it… As the clock moved on, we got more and more nervous because it’s a big, big production and so we set a soft deadline of a month, hoping they would be open.”
Dominique Hofmann, the owner of a 3-year-old lab named Ridge, described her dog as a mama s boy and said she sees him as family. So you might be able to imagine her frustration when people started putting her on blast, posting her name and photos in the comments on local news outlets social media accounts. I was getting a bunch of messages in my Facebook messenger, said Hofmann. It was just message after message after message coming through saying, ‘You are a horrible person.’ Calling me foul names … I can’t believe that you’re the woman that abandoned your dog and I saw you on the news and You need to die and die slowly.
Dominique Hofmann, the owner of a 3-year-old lab named Ridge, described her dog as a mama s boy and said she sees him as family. So you might be able to imagine her frustration when people started putting her on blast, posting her name and photos in the comments on local news outlets social media accounts. I was getting a bunch of messages in my Facebook messenger, said Hofmann. It was just message after message after message coming through saying, ‘You are a horrible person.’ Calling me foul names … I can’t believe that you’re the woman that abandoned your dog and I saw you on the news and You need to die and die slowly.