Cherokee County

Missing man recently diagnosed with cognitive disorder found safe in North Carolina

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says a man who was missing for a day was found safe in North Carolina.

Timothy Eggleston, 69, went missing on Saturday.

He left home in a gold 2002 Toyota Tundra with Georgia tag # RQC3936.

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Eggleston was last seen wearing a blue t-shirt, blue jeans, flip flops or slip-on shoes, and a gold wedding band.

On Monday, the sheriff’s office posted on their Facebook page that he was found safe in North Carolina.

He was recently diagnosed with major neurocognitive disorder, which causes a significant decline in at least one of the domains of cognition which include executive function, complex attention, language, learning, memory, perceptual-motor, or social cognition.


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