South Fulton Police have issued a Mattie’s Call on Christmas Day for 82-year-old Frederick Jacob Peterson, a man with dementia. He has now been found.

"If it hadn't been for Jimmy Carter, I think my son would have given up," Jeni Stepanek tells PEOPLE of her son, Mattie, who ...

Shirley Jenkins, 84, missing since December 22, has been found, as confirmed by the Georgia State Patrol to FOX 5 Atlanta.

Jeni Stepanek, the mother of young poet and peacemaker Mattie Stepanek, knew former President Jimmy Carter as few did — as a ...

Carter was born Oct. 1, 1924, to a prominent family in rural south Georgia. He went on to the U.S. Naval Academy during World ...

An 80-year-old man with dementia is still missing five days after he was first reported to have left his home early in the ...

“And so he tried to support Mattie's Foundation, his namesake Foundation ... She also said they went through chemotherapy together and that he would call her to give her encouragement and ...

A Mattie's Call has been issued for 84-year-old Shirley Jenkins by the DeKalb County Police Department. Authorities are searching for a Georgia man reported missing earlier this month and believed ...

A Mattie's Call has been issued for 84-year-old Shirley Jenkins by the DeKalb County Police Department. Police in Brookhaven are crediting new gunshot detection technology for helping them with ...

Mattie Stepanek’s admiration for Jimmy Carter began at age six, setting off a bond that lasted until the boy's death at 13 in ...