KETTLE FALLS, Wash. (AP) — Stevens County officials say a bedridden woman who turns 106 on Wednesday is doing well in a Colville nursing home after she was rescued from a filthy home in Kettle Falls where a deputy found her begging for food.
The Spokesman-Review reports a deputy went to the home last month looking for a man after neighbors reported his horses were starving.
The 78-year-old man, John H. Friedlund, was a caretaker for Frances Swan. When a deputy found her in a bedroom of the filthy house she asked for food and said she hadn’t eaten in a day.
Friedlund says Swan had been fed but didn’t remember. He was charged Monday with criminal mistreatment.
