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Missing couple had a flat
By: Roger S. Lucas
04/23/2008
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A missing Electric City couple, unaccounted for since April 2, has been found in Boise, Idaho.

Marlin and Dorothy Newnam were to be re-united with their daughter, Pamela Drumm, of Weiser, Idaho, sometime Tuesday or Wednesday.

The Newnams, both in their 70s, spend winters in Quartzite, Ariz. They left there three weeks ago in their motorhome pulling a black pickup, but hadn't communicated with relatives since they left.

"I had police from Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and Washington looking for them," Drumm said Tuesday from her Weiser home. "I even had the Grand Coulee police go by their home to see if they were already back."

It was the Grand Coulee police department that provided the missing link to the Electric City couple's whereabouts.

Drumm called Grand Coulee police and asked them to check the couple's credit card use and see if that would provide some answers. Their credit card receipts showed up along their route providing answers as to what happened to them.

"They told me they got stuck in Alamo, Nev. for about a week while their motor home was getting fixed, and they couldn't get a signal to use their cell phone," Drumm said.

"I've been worried sick about them," Drumm said, clearly relieved that her parents had been found.

The Newnams got stuck in Alamo when they had a flat tire. The couple ran their motor home with the flat in an effort to make it to town. While doing so, some wiring underneath the motor home was destroyed and they became stranded.

The Newnams always stop by Weiser to see their daughter on the way home.

"They always stop by here, and try to get home by April 15, to pay their property taxes, and that was why I was so worried about them," Drumm said.

The couple live on Crest Avenue, and will likely be home in a few days.


©The Star of Grand Coulee 2009

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