Body Identified As Orient Canoeist

Sat., May 30, 1998

From Staff

FROM FOR THE RECORD (Wednesday, June 3, 1998): Correction Drowning victim: The Associated Press erroneously identified the victim of a drowning in the Kettle River in a Saturday article. The victime was 40-year-old Weldon M. Lindsey of Orient.

A man whose body was found in the Kettle River was identified Friday as 36-year-old Alden Lindsey of Orient, the Ferry County Sheriff’s Department said.

Lindsey had been missing since he took a canoe on the river last week, a few days before heavy rains caused many area streams to overflow their banks, a sheriff’s dispatcher said.

The body was found in the river Thursday near a bridge about nine miles northwest of Kettle Falls.

An autopsy was planned. The cause of death was not immediately known, and the investigation was continuing.

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