MACHIAS – Wardens found the body of an Old Town man Thursday some 400 yards from the boarding home where he last was seen 14 days ago.

Frank Rossi Jr., 45, apparently froze to death in a wooded area off Route 192 near Marshall Manor, where he last was seen the evening of Feb. 27, according to Lt. Tim Liscomb of the Maine Warden Service.

Liscomb said the wind chill was 20 degrees below zero that night, and Rossi was wearing bluejeans, sneakers and a midweight coat. He had no hat or mittens, the warden said.

Rossi is believed to have become disoriented and walked into the wooded area with deep snow at the end of the street where the boarding home is located, Liscomb said.

Family members said last week that Ross suffered from a brain tumor and had been transferred to Marshall Manor from Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. He had been disoriented while at EMMC, according to his sister Michelle Bagley.

Bagley said her brother had been at Marshall Manor for just a few hours and had told other residents over supper that he was going to walk back to Glenburn. Bagley said her brother hadn’t lived in Glenburn for several years.

Staff at Marshall Manor determined that Rossi was missing when he failed to return from a walk. Cpl. Jason Scott of the Machias Police Department said he received the report at 7 p.m. Feb. 27.

Scott said in an interview last week that he checked all of the roads leading from town and checked local stores and businesses, but no one had seen Rossi. The department alerted other departments to be on the lookout, Scott said.

Liscomb said he and Lt. Pat Dorian, the search and rescue coordinator for the warden service, made plans for a ground and air search of the Machias area to take place this weekend after another warden read a newspaper account of the missing man.

The search was moved ahead to Thursday because there were warden dog teams in the Machias area for their regular monthly training, the lieutenant said.

The dog teams and a warden plane began searching at 10 a.m., and pilot Charlie Later spotted Rossi’s body at 11:15 a.m., Liscomb said.