Pittsboro woman drove away from home in October. NC farmer finds her off rural road.
Sheriff’s officials think the body of an 83-year-old Pittsboro woman who went missing nearly a month ago may have been found Wednesday in a rural community in Person County.
Alice McIlvaine Parsons was last seen Oct. 17 before she left her Graycliff Road home near Fearrington Village in a gray Ford Escape, according to a Chatham County Sheriff’s Office news release.
Parsons’ family grew concerned when they couldn’t reach her the next day and asked for deputies to check on her, the news release said. Deputies found Parsons’ cell phone on her kitchen counter, but she and the car were missing, it said.
Deputies have been searching for Parsons and asked the public for tips, but had no success.
Around 3 p.m. Wednesday, a Hurdle Mills farmer found a woman believed to be Parsons and her car, which was roughly a mile off Burlington Road and down an embankment, the release said.
Parsons’ body was sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Raleigh for a positive identification and to determine how she died, officials said.
This story was originally published November 14, 2024 at 11:52 AM with the headline "Pittsboro woman drove away from home in October. NC farmer finds her off rural road.."
