62-Year-Old Missing From Oak Park Found Safe

A woman who had been missing from Oak Park Thursday morning was found in Melrose Park on Friday afternoon, Oak Park police announced.

Carmel Kelley, who’s 62 years old and a Glendale Heights resident, suffers from dementia and has a short-term memory, her family told cops Thursday. They were worried when no one could find her after 9 a.m. She’d last been seen in the area of Oak Park Avenue and Madison Street.

Kelley was found at 3:30 p.m. at a Meijer’s on Winston Plaza in Melrose Park, police said, and returned home safely.

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Photo courtesy of the Oak Park PD