“They could have just ignored me, passed on, but they didn’t,” Minnie John said Saturday.
She, her husband, Shaji, and their son, Brandon, had gone to Utah to see the Delicate Arch, she wrote.
John said that as they neared the trail’s end, she felt lightheaded, dizzy and unable to make it to the arch, which was still 15 minutes away.
John told CNN that Bowen, best known for playing Claire Dunphy on the TV show “Modern Family,” her sister, Dr.
John, who is diabetic, had low blood sugar, was severely dehydrated, and had forgotten to eat since breakfast, she said.
“I had no strength in my feet,” John said.
Once she was seated, Bowen and Luetkemeyer used John’s cellphone to contact Brandon, John explained.
“I said, ‘Can I take a picture?’ and Julie said, ‘Of course,’ and gave me a big hug and we took a picture,” John said.
John went to Moab Regional Hospital, she told CNN, where she received five stitches and was told she had a fractured nose.
“I knew I’d never meet them again but I appreciated and admired the human part of what they did — selfless, not selfish,” she said.