Erik Bryant and his family have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. His 66-year-old mother, Judy, was safely located late Wednesday after missing for nearly two days.
Bryant tells Now Habersham that his mother was found “alive and disoriented” in Nahunta, Georgia, approximately 70 miles east of her home in the South Georgia town of Broxton.
Judy Bryant left her home around 3:40 a.m. Nov. 24 and was supposed to be headed to her son’s home in Franklin, North Carolina. That route would have carried her along US 441 through Northeast Georgia. When she didn’t arrive Tuesday, her family filed a missing person report.
Judy’s disappearance prompted a desperate two-state search that ended happily Wednesday evening. “She was stopped by Nahunta police,” Erik says.
Police officers notified the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office which in turn, notified Erik. He shared the happy news on his Facebook page where he had been posting public updates throughout his family’s 42-hour long ordeal. “She has just been found alive!” he wrote.
“I would just like to thank everyone who had us in their thoughts and prayers and those that continued to share and spread the word via social media. It was a team effort with a tremendous outcome,” says Erik.
He also extended his family’s thanks to the Coffee County Sheriff’s office and Georgia law enforcement. “We can never thank everyone enough.”
