A 91-year-old woman who went missing earlier this weekend from a the Brentwood Assisted Living Facility in Niles has been found and reunited with her family, according to the Niles City Police Department.

According to Capt. James Millin, Mary Schulz, 91, who had been believed to have left the Brentwood facility on South Third Street at approximately 4 p.m. on Thursday was found at 9:45 Saturday morning.

Schulz was reportedly located in a dense wooded area off the 1200 block of South Third Street in Niles.

Upon finding her, Millin said Schulz was only able to tell the locating officer her name.
With the assistance of the Niles Fire Department Rescue Team and SMCAS ambulance, she was transported to Lakeland Hospital in Niles to be evaluated.

According to Millin, Schulz’s family was notified and was with her. The circumstances surrounded the event are still under investigation and Millin said detectives hoped to speak with Schulz Saturday.

On Thursday at approximately 4 p.m., Mary Schulz is believed to have left the Brentwood  Assisted Living Facility, 1147 South Third St., with an unidentified white female. Schulz has not returned to the facility or had contact with relatives since that time. According  to Brentwood staff, Schulz appeared to know or recognize the woman she left with, but did not sign out of the residence.

While it was believed Schulz left with the unidentified female, the Niles City Police  Department, its Reserve Officers and K-9 Unit, along with the Niles City Fire  Department, Clay Fire Department (St. Joseph Co. Indiana), MABAS Division 201  (Mutual Aid Box Alarm System/Tactical Search and Rescue Team) and several  Volunteers In Police Services (VIPS) members, began a large scale coordinated  search effort in the areas surrounding the assisted living facility.

Investigators are asking that anyone who may have observed her walking in the area of South Third Street (an elderly female utilizing a walker), to contact the Niles City Police Department at 683-1313.