EAGLE CREEK, Ore. -- Sheriff’s deputies recovered the body of Debra Mae Bennett, a 46-year-old Eagle Creek resident, from a North Fork Creek logjam Sunday.

Authorities had been searching the area after she was reported missing by her mother Saturday. Bennett was killed when her truck was swept away in the creek after work on New Year's Day.

Bennett’s mother, Jeanette Hockaday, told police that her daughter, who worked as a bartender at the Eagle Creek Tavern, never made it home after her night shift.

Hockaday described her daughter as a woman with a "quick wit who always had a comeback."

Clackamas County sheriff's deputies located Bennett's truck near SE Kitzmiller Road in Eagle Creek on Saturday afternoon.

Family members told police that Bennett would often take a similar route to reach her residence, also on Kitzmiller Road.

Officers were unable to access the truck Saturday due to flood waters. Rescue teams returned Sunday morning and were able to identify the truck.

Detective Jim Strovink said late Sunday that searchers found Bennett's body in a logjam about a half-mile down river from where pickup was believed to have crashed into the swift current.

She drowned, according to the medical examiner.

Bennett leaves behind a 14-year-old daughter, Taylor.

"She was a good mom," Hockaday said.

Coworkers described her as an able bartender, known for one-liners and strong drinks.

But it was her love for her child that really motivated Bennett, friends and family said.

The night she died she was rushing home in order to be with her daughter.

"She had gotten off work and we tried to get her to stay and she said, 'No, I've been away from my daughter. I'm going home,'" co-worker Julie Biddlecome told KGW.

No foul play was suspected.

An account for Bennett's family was set up at Key Bank.