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Kali

(55,007 posts)
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:31 PM Nov 2013

Search for missing 86-year old woman in St. David area

I had a call about this, know her and the family. Did a quick circle of our place as she and her daughters used to hunt here.
I can't believe the fucking border patrol hasn't found her, they are everywhere.



COCHISE COUNTY - An 86-year old woman is missing from the St. David area in Cochise County.

On Sunday, Nov.24, at approximately 10:30 a.m., the Cochise County Sheriff's Office got a call that Mary Black had taken the keys to a 1991 Ford Explorer and left a residence. The woman who called said her mother has dementia and has not driven in ten years.

Deputies arrived at the home and were were told that Ms. Black frequently went to the vehicle and sat inside without attempting to leave the area. On one other occasion, Ms. Black did take the vehicle and was located a short distance away in the parking lot of a convenience store.

Ms. Black is not taking medication and she was last seen wearing a short sleeve shirt and pants and her hair was disheveled. Ms. Black is a white female, approximately 5'9", weighing between 125-140 pounds, appearing frail, with grey hair and hazel eyes. At the time of her leaving the residence in St David, Ms. Black did not have any personal property with her.

She has been entered into the National Crime Information Database as a Missing and Endangered Person along with the 1991 white Ford Explorer with Arizona license plates 092-CLS.

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public assistance to help locate Mary Black so we can get her home safely. Anyone with information related to Ms. Black or her whereabouts is asked to contact the Cochise County Sheriff's Office at 432-9500 or by calling 9-1-1.

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Search for missing 86-year old woman in St. David area (Original Post) Kali Nov 2013 OP
my grandmother and mother had Alzheimer's.... chillfactor Nov 2013 #1
SUV driven by missing Cochise County woman found in desert Ptah Nov 2013 #2
UPDATE: Missing woman found deceased Ptah Dec 2013 #3
services Saturday Kali Dec 2013 #4

chillfactor

(7,573 posts)
1. my grandmother and mother had Alzheimer's....
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 12:16 AM
Nov 2013

it is surprising how easily they can slip away...this family must be worried sick...I pray that they find this lady quickly

Ptah

(33,024 posts)
2. SUV driven by missing Cochise County woman found in desert
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 06:24 PM
Nov 2013

The SUV taken by a missing St. David woman was found Saturday morning southwest of Picacho Peak.

Deputies have been looking for Mary Black, 86, since last Sunday when she drove away from her
St. David home in a white, 1991 Ford Explorer.

are still trying to find an elderly St. David woman with dementia who took an SUV last Sunday.

Black, who has dimentia, hasn't driven in at least a decade, but she “frequently went to the vehicle
and sat inside without attempting to leave the area,” Carol Capas, spokeswoman for the
Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, said in a news release. “On one other occasion, Mary Black did
take the vehicle and was located a short distance away in the parking lot of a convenience store.”


http://azstarnet.com/news/blogs/police-beat/suv-driven-by-missing-cochise-county-woman-found-in-desert/article_c0d1903c-5926-11e3-8c60-0019bb2963f4.html

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That's quite some distance - almost 100 miles.

Ptah

(33,024 posts)
3. UPDATE: Missing woman found deceased
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:57 AM
Dec 2013

UPDATE: The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office is saddened to report that
86-year-old Mary Black, missing from her St. David home for the past 13 days,
has been found deceased.

Today, Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue members, along with
Pinal County Search and Rescue and Pima County Search and Rescue teams,
deployed in the area where the vehicle was located last Saturday, south of
Arizona City, said CCSO Spokeswoman Carol Capas.

The Search Teams were organized and, using canines, worked the area from the
vehicle out and discovered the woman's body in a brushy area, about one mile southwest, she said.

Black will be transported to the Pima County Medical Examiners’ Office for the
completion of an autopsy, Capas said.


http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/news/article_ebcaef74-5d02-11e3-b37a-0019bb2963f4.html

Kali

(55,007 posts)
4. services Saturday
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 01:34 PM
Dec 2013

not sure I can do another funeral already. Poor Mary. She was a unique old gal. My best memory of her was the year she and her daughter were tracking deer up on the mountain behind the house (where all the towers are) and came down to the house to say hello. They were hunting on horseback.

Not many get out of their vehicles these days. Those ladies were doing it with real skill, in my opinion.

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