Luella Edge, 80, formerly of Wheeling, is a resident of the Country Club Retirement Center on state Route 149 near Bellaire.

Sheriff Fred Thompson said Edge was last seen at 4:45 a.m. Friday watching television in her room. She was wearing a long-sleeved green shirt with a white sweater vest. She is about 5 feet tall and 145 pounds with gray hair.

As of Saturday, crews were still searching the area. Thompson said search dogs were called in and picked up a trail from the retirement home, but the dogs lost the scent about 1 1/2 miles down state Route 149.

Officials started focusing their attention on the Fulton Hill area near the retirement home Saturday morning after a tip from the public.

Thompson said, "Someone called into the nursing home this morning and said they heard a woman screaming and crying about 3 o'clock (Saturday) morning up on Fulton Hill."

Thompson said the terrain surrounding the area is pretty rough -- wooded with creeks -- and they are tapping every resource possible. He also activated an automated telephone alert system to inform county residents about Edge's disappearance.

Thompson said officials don't have any idea where Edge could be, but they had contacted Wheeling police to check her previous residence there. He also said it was Edge's first night in the Belmont County facility and she may have been disoriented.

NEWS9 tried to contact the retirement home and went to the home in person, but no one was available to comment Friday on how Edge may have disappeared.

Anyone with information on Edge's whereabouts is asked to immediately call police.