John C. Kingery; Alzheimer’s Patient Who Was Abandoned

John C. Kingery, 82, an Alzheimer’s patient who was taken from a nursing home and left at an Idaho racetrack in March with a bag of diapers next to his chair. Kingery, whose daughter is accused of leaving him there, was removed from an Oregon nursing home and left at the Coeur d’Alene dog track with a note taped to his wheelchair that identified him as John King. His other children recognized him from news accounts and brought him to Kentucky to live near them. Sue Gifford, a daughter by another marriage, was arrested in June. She pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree kidnaping and perjury, and is awaiting trial. Oregon law enforcement officials have said Gifford was not charged with Kingery’s abandonment because there is no law in Idaho against abandoning an elderly person. On Monday in a Morgantown, Ky., nursing home of what a spokesman called natural causes.