Barbara Leed
A woman missing since Oct. 4 was found walking in West Lampeter Township Saturday morning.
State police said Barbara Leed, 51, of Cardinal Drive in East Drumore Township, was seen by someone who knows her at 8:40 a.m., walking north on Lampeter Road near Paramount Road in the village of Lampeter.
Police said that person called the West Lampeter Township police department to notify them.
Township police "took custody" of Leed on the road, state police reported, and notified state police at the Lancaster barracks, who had been investigating her disappearance.
A West Lampeter officer declined to comment on the situation, and referred a reporter to the state police, who declined to provide further details.
Leed was taken by state police to Lancaster General Hospital.
Her mother, Doris VanGinhoven, of East Lampeter Township, said Leed had been admitted to the hospital's "mental health ward."
VanGinhoven said Saturday afternoon that no one in the family had been allowed to talk to Leed.
"It's up to her to call someone that she decides she wants to talk to," Mrs. VanGinhoven said of her daughter. "That's the hospital's policy."
The family has many unanswered questions, but VanGinhoven said it feels "wonderful" knowing Leed is alive.
The spot where Leed was picked up by police Saturday is a little more than 10 miles from the Turkey Hill store at Routes 272 and 372 at the Buck, where she was last seen Oct. 4.
Leed was spotted on a store surveillance camera that day parking her car in the lot at around 7 a.m. and then walking away.
Her family had been frantically searching for her ever since.
She and her husband, Richard, had been having some marital troubles, the family reported last week.
Leed had briefly left the couple's home in August, traveling to a sister's house in Chicago, as the result of the discord.
But she returned home after about a week, apparently to work on the marriage, the family reported.
VanGinhoven said she had no idea where her daughter might have stayed since her disappearance.
She said she was told by police that Leed was physically OK, but got no other information.
"I really don't know a whole lot," she said.
A call to Richard Leed was not returned Saturday.
