[lifesaver]

I didnt even realize it, but when I went on-line to read my hometown newspaper today at work, I realized Paige is from moy hoemtown, and even more bizarre, my sister used to baby-sit her. I rememebr them (and her brother ryan) from church very well, of course they were 8 or 9 when I saw them last. Ther parents are the "perfect" couple. They took us on ski trips when I was little, as our youth directors! World is a small place! Glad Paige is OK!

See story:
Student found

By KATE B. DICKSON

Associate Publisher

A former Pampan and missing Texas A&M student is home safely in Midland today after she had been missing since Sunday night when she failed to return to her dorm after visiting her brother and going to Bible study.

Catherine Page Price, an 18-year-old freshman at College Station, is the daughter of Willis and Carolyn Price, formerly of Pampa, and she is the granddaughter of W.D. and Ida Ruth Price Jr., who live on a ranch about 20 miles north of Pampa. Her brother Ryan is also a Texas A&M student.

Page's grandmother, Mrs. Price, said details of her disappearance are sketchy and she says it's possible her granddaughter doesn't know what happened to her.

Page called her mother Wednesday from a pay telephone in Livingston in East Texas and told them she was OK,

Mrs. Price said her son had gone to pick up his daughter, returning to Midland with her about midnight last night after first stopping to talk with police in College Station.

The grandmother said she had not talked with her granddaughter. The girl was asleep when Mrs. Price talked with her son this morning, she told The Pampa News.

When Page called yesterday Mrs. Price said, "... they kept her on the telephone until they could reach police there who came and took care of her."

"I've had quite a week," Mrs. Price said of the ordeal. "... But so many people here and in Midland have prayed for us."

The grandmother said her son and his family moved from Pampa to Midland about 13 years ago. While here, Willis worked on the ranch and Carolyn was choir director at First Presbyterian Church. Willis in now in the oil business.

An Associated Press story echoed what Mrs. Price said saying it was unclear what Price was doing there, or why she left school Sunday without telling anyone, said Bob Wiatt, director of security at Texas A&M University.

Her disappearance prompted an extensive search across Central and West Texas that involved hundreds of volunteers.

They canvassed roads between Midland and College Station, about 350 miles apart, Tuesday night and Wednesday. At one point, the Department of Public Safety deployed an airplane to try and spot Price's blue Ford Explorer.

Tuesday evening, about 600 people gathered for a prayer service at Midland's First Presbyterian Church., said Jennifer Sise, director of youth ministry.