STOCKTON, Calif. — Update: 5:45 p.m.
Family members said Betsy Brotby was found in Sacramento and is OK.
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The Stockton Police Department is asking for the public's help locating a missing 90-year-old woman.
According to a news release, Betsy Brotby left her home in north Stockton around noon Sunday to go to Kohl’s.
"For a 90-year old pretty incredible, very active even though she has problems with arthritis and lots of back issues and uses a cane, but for 90 she's really pretty with it," daughter Lee Shea told ABC10.
"Super generous, wonderful, full of life person, loved life loved her friends," said daughter Debbie Carlyle.
The two daughters say their mother is a retired secretary at San Joaquin Delta College and an avid gardener. She recently became a "Stockton Beautiful Home Award Recipient."
Police say later Brotby stopped at a store in Altaville around 9 p.m. Sunday. She told the clerk she was lost, and the clerk gave her directions back to Stockton. She did not make it home.
She was last seen wearing a blue sweater, blue jeans, white and gray tennis shoes, and a black cross-body purse. She is around 5’3” tall and weighs around 110 pounds.
The greyhound dog rescuer, who is close to her three dogs Mya, Nino and Gracie, doesn't like to drive freeways, takes sideroads and won't drive at night.
"She needs help. She needs her medication. She probably hasn't had anything to eat or drink," said Carlyle.
Her vehicle, a silver 2018 Honda CRV with the tag #8ETJ246, was last seen around 3 a.m. Monday near Latrobe Road and White Rock Road in El Dorado Hills.
Police say Brotby has a condition that may cause her to become lost and confused.
If you see her or have information on her location, you can call Stockton police at (209) 937-7911.
