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Montco Grandma Missing After Family Party Has Been Found

​A Montco grandmother who went missing on the way home from a family party has been found.

UPDATE: Janice Gross, who had been reported missing, has been located.

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SKIPPACK TOWNSHIP, PA — A Montgomery County mother and grandmother has gone missing on the way home from her niece and nephew's birthday party, according to authorities and her family.

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Pennsylvania State Police Skippack Station is searching for 69-year-old Janice Gross.

Police said she was last seen at Wawa, 4221 Skippack Pike in Skippack Township around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18. Her daughter, in a public post on Facebook seeking help finding her mother, said she was driving home from the family birthday party at the time of her disappearance.

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Despite police saying she suffers from dementia, her daughter said that was untrue.

"She has no history of dementia and this is not like her," Cathy Gross Buffler wrote. She noted the Wawa where she was last seen is just 10 minutes from her mother's house.

She is 5'2" and weighs 175 pounds. She has black hair, hazel eyes, and was last wearing a salmon colored t-shirt, black pants and black shoes. She was driving a gray 2016 Toyota Highlander bearing PA registration HNF-4133.

Pennsylvania State Police said there is a potential for her to travel to Lancaster County.

Anyone with information regarding Gross should contact police immediately by calling 911 or the PSP Skippack 610-584-1250.

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