Still no sign of missing Alzheimer’s pensioner

May 21, 2012 News

Four weeks later…

It’s been a month now since 66-year old Dennis Cort disappeared after leaving church at Beterverwagting on the East Coast of Demerara.
While most would have given up hope by now, the elderly man’s daughter, Gail Lowe, is persevering with belief that he is alive somewhere, although the odds of such are extremely low.
With each passing day and no reported sighting, chances of his safe return home are getting slimmer and slimmer.
The pensioner, whose last address was listed as 20 Vigilance South, East Coast Demerara, and who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, was last seen at Victoria when he disembarked a bus which would normally take worshipers home from church in Beterverwagting.
According to Lowe, who usually takes him to and from church in her car, she was greeting other worshippers at the end of the Sunday service on April 29, just after midday when Cort, for some strange reason, boarded the bus which subsequently left the area.

Missing: Dennis Cort

It was not until Lowe was ready to head home that she realized that her father was nowhere around.
When she enquired about him, she was told that he had left with the bus.
The woman said that she drove to Victoria, where the bus usually turns back but could not locate her father.
Searches were also carried out in other East Coast Demerara villages including Ann’s Grove, Nabaclis and Golden Grove and there were still no signs of the old man.
Since then Lowe and other relatives have combed the backlands of several other East Coast Demerara villages without success.
The search for the missing pensioner led Lowe to Linden where Cort has relatives. That too proved futile.
Lowe is determined to see her father again even if it’s only his body.
Her hopes soared when she heard about an unidentified man who was struck down by a car in the city early last week.
“A friend called me and asked if I see the papers and I said no. She said that they find a person and right away my heart go Boop! Boop! And I said okay I will check on it. I asked her the description of the clothes that the person had on and she described it to me, so I said that it could be him and it could not be him,” Lowe explained.
However, checks at the funeral parlour where the body was taken revealed that the person was not her father.
Then there was the news of a missing elderly woman, whose body was subsequently found with what appeared to be marks of violence.
“I just look at the headline and said, ‘oh gosh! I don’t want to read this thing’ because it remind me of my father. But somebody read it and told me that they found the woman.”
This episode brought home the reality that her father’s fate could be similar.
Lowe remains upbeat that she will find closure to the thing that is eating at her heart.
Cort was last seen wearing a blue and red striped shirt, blue denim trousers and a pair of black boots.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Dennis Cort is asked to contact his daughter on telephone #274-0360 or 667-0150 or the nearest police station.