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Two seniors missing under strange circumstances
The distraught families of two elderly persons are feverishly seeking the public’s assistance to find their missing relatives. The children of 82-year-old Margaret Harris, and 74-year-old John Morris both of Mocha, East Bank Demerara, said that their parents’ disappearance is extremely strange and they are at a lost as to what may have happened to them.
82-year-old Margaret Harris
Feeling like they have exhausted all avenues, the relatives are begging the public to assist in locating their parents.
Harris’s daughters; Faye Wickham and Claudette Pancham, said that their mother has been missing for nearly seven weeks. They said that on November 17, last, their mother who sells broom in the community, left for the lands aback of the Mocha village around 13:30 hours.
Pancham said that her mother lives with her younger sister, and on the day of her disappearance, the woman had ventured into the farmlands where she has her farm, to strip broom. The woman never came home and this prompted a search party.
According to the sisters, persons living along the way to their mother’s farm remembered seeing Harris going into the backdam but had not seen her return. She was at the time wearing a blue dress, black shoes and a straw hat. She had a cutlass and two dogs with her. The family is saying that no trace of the woman can be found. When the search was conducted, strips of coconut branches were found which indicated that the woman had finished stripping her broom.
“Not the cutlass, not even a side of her shoe could be found, to say at least something may have happened,” the sisters lamented. The dogs did return home but they failed to lead searchers to the woman.
For almost two weeks, the sisters said searches were conducted. These were taken as far as Ogle, Lusignan and Diamond but still no trace of the elderly woman.
John Morris’s children, who assisted in the search for Harris, are now searching for him. His kids; Simone Daniels, Augustine John and Melvina Daniels, all of Mocha, said their father went missing eleven days ago.
Two Saturdays ago, the man went to his home which happens to be in the Mocha Backdam, but was not heard from again.
Simone Daniels said her father lives with her but would spend time at her younger sister. She said that on the day of her father’s disappearance, he told her that he was going to visit another sibling who lives in Sophia. Around 10:30hours that day, she said that her father returned to Mocha and stopped at his younger daughter’s house before going home.
Daniels said she informed her father that she and her children would be sleeping at the younger sister and he opted to go home alone. Around 17:30 hours, Daniels said her father returned to her sister’s home to get his lighter which he had left there. He then returned to his home.
74-year-old Morris John
Knowing that their father is an early riser and would normally be by the sister before noon, the woman became curious as to why their father had not yet visited and decided to have their children take food for their father. Daniels said she sent her children ahead. Before she could reach her home she said she saw the children returning with the food and her daughter was crying.
When she asked, the child said that her grandfather was not at home. Daniels said she hurried to her house only to find it wide open but no trace of her father. At the time, John was wearing a “Nike hoody,” grey jeans, long boots and a blue cap. He had in his possession his lighter, a torch light and a knife.
Despite the numerous searches, John is yet to be located. The police have intervened in both missing cases but still no luck. The families are however asking that more effort be placed into finding the missing persons. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of John is asked to call 674-0638 or 688-2277. For Harris’ family call 217-0338.
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