DeEtte Spencer (69) last seen on 1/26/2026 at Walmart in Price, UT

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ESCALANTE, Utah (KUTV) — It's been more than one week since family and friends of 69-year-old DeEtte Spencer have seen or heard from her.

The last confirmed sighting of DeEtte was at a Walmart in Price on Jan. 26 after visiting family in Colorado.

The Garfield County Sheriff's Office released a screenshot of surveillance video from her sighting in Price and another in Vernal days prior, on January 24, 2026.

Spencer, from Escalante, was driving a white/cream Buick Lucerne, Utah license plate: E604JU.

https://kutv.com/news/utahs-missing/...scalante-woman

FB: https://www.facebook.com/deette.spencer.1

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A central Utah sheriff's office is urging the public to not "self-deploy" on search missions after a man fell and died over the weekend when he tried to locate a woman who has been missing in remote territory since February.

Joshua Dovayak, 48, fell while he was searching for a missing person, according to the Carbon County Sheriff's Office.

Additional details of Dovayak's death were not available, except that it occurred in the search area for DeEtte Spencer in Cottonwood Dugway in Nine Mile Canyon.

"The sheriff's office wishes to emphasize that this individual was acting on his own and was not part of an official or organized search operation," the office said.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51599915...-carbon-county

His FB: https://www.facebook.com/josh.dovayak

[Nic B]

Did he know this person?

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Did he know this person?

I believe he was a member of a FB group set up on her case.