LOWER LAKE, Calif. – An elderly Lower Lake woman who was the subject of a search that launched followed her disappearance late Tuesday has been found alive.

Donalda Thompson, 85, was located by a Mendocino County Search and Rescue team assisting in the search effort just after 11 a.m. Wednesday, according to Capt. James Bauman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Thompson, who suffers from dementia, was reported missing Tuesday night from her May Hollow Road home in Lower Lake by her daughter. Bauman said Thompson's daughter had last seen her mother Tuesday morning when she left for work, but when she returned that evening Thompson was gone.

A search and rescue operation subsequently was activated at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Bauman said.

Bauman said that throughout Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning volunteers from Lake County Search and Rescue and the Kelseyville K-Corps searched the area of Thompson’s 12-acre property and the general Lower Lake area with negative results.

He said Search and Rescue coordinators also arranged for additional resources to respond from outside the county and deploy this morning.

By 9 a.m. Wednesday Search and Rescue teams from Sacramento, Colusa, Glenn, Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties had responded to render mutual aid, Bauman said.

Additional resources joining the search included Search and Rescue Explorers from the East Bay area, a blood hound team from the Placerville Police Department and local California Highway Patrol officers, he reported. Search and Rescue teams from Alameda County also were committed to respond if the search was to extend to a second day.

The Sheriff’s Mobile Command Center was brought in and set up on Ployez Winery property near Highway 29, said Bauman, who added that Search and Rescue teams from Contra Costa County were still en-route and a CHP helicopter was about to go airborne when Thompson was located.

At about 11:05 a.m. Wednesday, one of the vehicle teams from Mendocino County Search and Rescue found Thompson sitting on the ground near a dirt road in the hills, about one mile northwest of her home, Bauman said.

Thompson was incoherent and had some superficial injuries, but Bauman said she was otherwise relatively unharmed given her ordeal.

She was initially assessed and transported to the command center where medics from Lake County Fire were waiting. Bauman said she was ultimately transported to Saint Helena Hospital Clearlake for further evaluation.

Bauman said Thompson was unable to speak to her ordeal.

He said the Lake County Sheriff’s Office offered its deepest gratitude to the men and women of local Search and Rescue teams, the Kelseyville K-Corps, local assisting agencies, and particularly those SAR teams and SAR Explorers responding from outside the county, who contributed to an efficient and successful operation.

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