FARMINGTON — Martin Savage is looking for his angel, a young woman who showed him compassion and offered him help when he recently fell and passed out outside his home, he said.

In the midst of the turmoil, he neglected to thank her. “I just want to thank her with all my heart,” he said.

Savage, 82, was returning to the apartment he shares with his wife, Jannette, at Thompson Walton Court on Sept. 16. His hands were full of mail.

He noticed a young woman was sitting near the path in front of his house as he walked toward his door. The next thing he knew he awoke with his head cradled in her lap. He apparently fell and passed out, he said.

His arms must have shot up when he started to fall because the “mail went flying along the path and bushes,” he said.

Once he came to, the young woman stayed with him until he “had knowledge enough to keep my feet under me,” he said in an ad in the Sun Journal and a Franklin Journal letter to the editor.

Savage has asked other tenants of the senior apartment complex about the young woman and no one seems to know her. It was during Farmington Fair week, he said.

She helped him pick up the mail and continued to sit on the lawn as he went in to his apartment.

“We didn’t talk much. Usually I would have said ‘thank you,'” he said. “Old age isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.”

Savage said wishes the young woman would contact him at 778-4806.

He had some black and blues on his chest and sore ribs from the fall, he said. He did not seek medical help. A few days later, he went to his doctor, who ordered X-rays of his chest and facial area, he said. 

The couple were residents of Temple for many years. They did not have children and now take care of each other.

Savage was raised in the area and spent 20 years serving as a local game warden. Twelve of those years were spent in Rangeley before coming back to Farmington, he said.

“Being a game warden then was fun,” he said. “It’s different today.”

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