Missing Acton couple found
An elderly Acton couple reported missing late last week were found in San Luis Obispo County on Tuesday, law enforcement officials said.
Edison Morse Cook, 81, and his wife, Isabel, 73, were treated for severe dehydration and were under observation at local hospitals.
The Cooks did not show up as expected Friday for a reunion with friends in the Northern California town of Paradise, said Deputy Charles Lemke of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The couple’s son, Edison Cook Jr., a sheriff’s lieutenant at the Palmdale station, initiated a missing person’s report for his parents and their champagne-colored 1996 Acura sedan on Monday, Lemke said.
About 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, the Palmdale sheriff’s station was notified by the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department that a passerby had found Edison Cook walking along El Camino Road in San Luis Obispo County.
“The passerby noticed that he was delirious and had a bump on his head,” Lemke said.
A few hours later Isabel Cook was found wandering along California 58 in the opposition direction from her husband. The couple were about 70 miles apart.
“We don’t know how they got there or why they split up,” he said.
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department is handling the investigation, but did not return calls seeking comment.
Ron Yukelson, a spokesman for Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, said Edison Cook was listed “in fair and stable condition,” but was admitted to the hospital, “most likely overnight, for observation.”
Megan Maloney, a spokeswoman for French Hospital Medical Center, where Isabel Cook was being treated, said she was in fair condition, but would be kept “for at least the next day or two.”
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