{"id":6908,"date":"2016-12-20T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:10:40","slug":"elderly-man-drives-into-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/elderly-man-drives-into-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Trip to Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6918 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/JODY-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"jody\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/JODY-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/JODY-640x659.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/JODY.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An 89-year-old Pennsylvania man,\u00a0Joseph (Jody) Tarbutton went into the Galley Restaurant early Monday morning and stated he did not know where he was. Haleyville police ran a check and found the man had been reported missing from Boothwyn, Pennsylvania for two days. He had apparently driven to Haleyville in his pickup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His step son and step daughter flew to Birmingham and then driven to Haleyville by Frankie Hicks, the father of Haleyville policeman Steve Hicks. \u00a0Tarbutton spent the night at Lakeland Hospital recovering from dehydration and fatigue. A World War II vet, Tarbutton had left to do some shopping Friday afternoon and apparently became disoriented and continued to drive through the weekend until arriving in Haleyville. He appeared to be in good spirits Tuesday morning when he was discharged from the hospital. He was taken to the Birmingham airport where he took his first airplane ride since WWII. His daughter, Cindy Gotta, reported the was back home and safe. She expressed her thanks to the kind people of this area who took care of her father.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6920 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Granddaughter-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"granddaughter\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Granddaughter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Granddaughter-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Granddaughter-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Granddaughter-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Granddaughter-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Granddaughter-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Granddaughter.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After arriving safely\u00a0back in Pennsylvania, Mr. Tarbutton&#8217;s granddaughter shows him a map of how far he had driven to arrive in Haleyville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 89-year-old Pennsylvania man,\u00a0Joseph (Jody) Tarbutton went into the Galley Restaurant early Monday morning and stated he did not know where he was. Haleyville police ran a check and found the man had been reported missing from Boothwyn, Pennsylvania for two days. He had apparently driven to Haleyville in his pickup. His step son and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6922,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}