MILTON — An elderly man who does not speak English and had wandered away from his home was found by a High Street couple, who took him inside and helped him warm up before he was reunited with his family.
“Our dog found him,” said Margaret Traendly, of 148 High St. “My husband heard him barking and looked out and saw him shuffling down the street.”
Hector Rosado, 73, was last seen at his Filbert Street home, several blocks away, at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
He suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and does not speak English, his family told authorities. They reported him missing to Milton police at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, and officers from Milton, along with Lewisburg and state police officers, firefighters and other volunteers began a search.
Traendly said it was about 8:10 a.m. Wednesday when her husband saw the man in the street. He roused her from bed, and they went out to help the man.
“He could barely move when we brought him into the house,” she said. “I knew we had to raise his body temperature.”
The National Weather Service in State College said the overnight temperature Tuesday dipped to 18 degrees.
She found an electric heating pad and put it under his feet and wrapped him in a blanket. She made him a cup of hot chocolate.
“He was so cold at first he couldn’t talk, and as he warmed up, he began to mutter and babble. I couldn’t understand him,” she went on.
On a whim, she said, she uttered the one phrase of Spanish she knew: “Que pasa?” — “What’s up?”
He perked up, she said, and her husband went to get their neighbors, the Riveras, who speak Spanish. “They came over and spoke to him, and they heard the name Rosado,” she said. “They knew of the family and made a couple of calls and found out who he was.”
Shortly after, she said, members of Rosado’s family came to their house and took him home.
“I have great faith in God, and I believe God put him there for us to find,” Traendly said. “He was nearly done, and then we found him.”
“His family was wonderful,” she said. “Everything worked out, and we’ve made some new friends. It’s going to be a good new year.”
The Traendlys moved to Milton four years ago from New York after Jim retired from the Long Island Railroad.
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