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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—The Mesa County coroner says a body found along the main line of the Grand Valley Canal in Grand Junction is that of an 81-year-old dementia patient who’d been reported missing.
Afton Worley was last seen at her home on Saturday. She was reported as a missing person Tuesday morning when the front door of her home was found open and she could not be located.
Hours later, passers by discovered the body of a woman near the canal.
The Mesa County coroner’s office says Worley died of exposure, and that her death was an accident.
Worley’s body was discovered just a few blocks from her home in Grand Junction’s Walnut Park subdivison.
