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May 5 started out as just another Wednesday. Harry Burleigh kissed his wife of 40 years, Stacy, goodbye as he headed to Toketee Lake for an overnight fishing trip.
The plan was to spend the night at the lake, go chasing some German brown trout the following day and head back to the couple s Roseburg home. After all, Mother s Day was that coming Sunday and Stacy s birthday was the following Wednesday.
Fishing from a kayak the following morning, 69-year-old Harry Burleigh was having a little luck. I caught a couple of nice ones, kissed them on the snout and let them go, Harry Burleigh recalled.
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A missing 69-year-old fisherman was found alive on Sunday after surviving 17 nights in the Oregon wilderness alone, authorities said.
Search and rescue crews had been looking for Roseburg resident Harry Burleigh since he went missing May 7 after a camping trip in the Twin Lakes area.
On Sunday afternoon, a team found him after calling his name near where they’d found a shelter he’d built for himself days earlier, an announcement from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said. He was found to be walking and complaining of minor pain, but was in stable condition, the statement said.
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