Missing Man Last Known to Be at Piercy Area Gas Station
“It is kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack,” explained Teresa Abraham who is traveling through northern California today searching for her missing father.
She says that last Wednesday he had traveled from his southern California home. “My dad tends to go on these long rides,” Abraham said. At the beginning of the month, she said, he drove to Seattle and back.
This time they think he was planning on visiting the redwoods. On Thursday he used his credit card at the gas station in Piercy. “Then he had a conversation with his significant other,” she told us. She said that he told her he was going to head back home. “He was going through the trees and then go back to [Hwy] 5 and go home,” she explained.
But, since then…nothing–no calls, no purchases on his credit card, not a clue on where he is or what happened.
By Friday, the family reported him missing. Now they are searching everywhere in hopes of finding some information. “We are just coming up to see if we travel some of the road he was traveling, if we can find out what happened,” she explained.
Her father, she said, has experienced some issues with Alzheimer’s. However, in January, his doctor had cleared him to renew his driver’s license.
If anyone has any information, please contact Sgt. Mike Rodriguez with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Missing Person Unit at (323) 890-5500.
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Can’t wait to hear the great news of his return. Prayers from CT.
Where is the gas station in Piercy ? Probably mean ‘Frenchs’ (Reaggae) or Cooks Valley ???
On Hwy 101, can’t miss it. “Cook’s Valley” is in Piercy.
How do people with brain degeneration illnesses continue to be allowed to drive vehicles? You would think DMV would void any licence belonging to a person with Alzheimer’s or dementia problems just like they do to people with drinking problems.
His family seems pretty casual about it too. TAKE HIS KEYS, KIDS😰😡
Q..at what rate did this man reach old age?
A…at the same rate you will. Be careful what you dam your elders to because your children are watching.
I think his children love him and are treating him with the respect i hope my children afford me.
Why do folks insist they know what is best for others . Your comment is offensive on so many different levels. Just because someone is older and has memory problems doesn’t mean they are bad drivers. Doesn’t mean they are any less capable it merely means they have more to remember than others.
My comment might be offensive but [edit] How dare you be so nonchalant about risking the life of another person. If your loved one had a mental health problem like constant forgetfulness and confusion and disorientation, would you honestly really want them behind the wheel of a car driving wherever they want? They might end up never coming back again. Either you have no family members or you’re cold-hearted.
Trust me, that is not how Alzheimer’s works. Anyone with experience with people suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s would know you just spewed a crock of ****. Once someone is suffering enough from the disease for a doctor to diagnose it knows that they are passed the point of being capable of caring for themselves. They don’t have “more to remember”, they can’t remember. Its also not offensive, its the truth.
I like the way you handled the comment.
I sure hope they find him, and in good health. Probably should have not been driving for his own good.
DMV voiding driving licenses, just like they do to people with drinking problems. How has that worked out? What a joke. Just get in a car and go like the rest of the drunks and illegals with no license or insurance.
Your harsh in some areas but right in others like illegals.
I’m not a fan of giving cdl’s to non english speakers or readers.
Alzheimer’s?
And a dr cleared him to drive?
What????
This is truly a tragedy in the making
Did you have to get a Dr’s clearance to get your drivers license?
Hopefully local CHP will take into consideration this is possibly a vehicle Accident gone unnoticed. They should get a helicopter and patrol 101 on his possible travel route . A man wrecked just a few days ago on alderpoint road and was trapped for more than 20 hours until luckily a passerby noticed his car 50 feet over the embankment.
Check highway 1 too. Just south of pricey (west). Years ago someone discovered a vehicle that had a 90 year old grandma that was missing for a couple of years in it. That road has some deadly turns and n the first 5 miles or so heading west, and they go down ALONG way. Good luck out there!
We should immediately ban needles and haystacks! Safe return, though…
if he was going to hit the i5 i would check hwy 20 or uper lake area.
Hwy 16 is a nice shortcut, and more direct South to 5 from 20. Hits 5 at Woodland after going through the Capay Valley. 20 arcs north a ways before hitting 5.
If is an adventurous type could he have tried 162, Mendocino Pass? it’d be doable this time of year. Theres a little store, and camp right before you head up to the high country. they might remember specific cars stopping in.
~blessings up, John Alan Baker.
The following is from an interview available on YouTube –June 27th.
Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt
The Klinghardt Institute (founder)-USA
The American Academy of Neurotherapy
Medical Director of the Institute of Neurology at the Leeds Institute, Washington
Institute of Neurobiology, Germany and Switzerland (founder)
“There are three things that have been isolated that are at the core of chronic illness, and at the core of the mass extinction of many species, even the insects. Those three most toxic things are aluminum, glyphosate, and electromagnetic radiation.
These things must be eliminated, or even reduced, if the planet is going to be able to recover.
On the medical side of that, when I see a new patient with Alzheimer disease or people with brain fog, if your memory isn’t as good as it used to be-think aluminum, because that is the reason. A chronic disease or Parkinson’s-think aluminum, or children with behavioural problems or hyperactivity or attention deficit-or simply marital problems where your emotions are easily provoked-think aluminum. As a doctor, for me, reducing the aluminum has become a huge burden. My company in England, called Ki Signs is trying to develop internal ways of removing aluminum from the system using herbal compounds and the research done by Chris Exley, which focuses on the ingestion of silica [Fiji Water has 93 parts per million of silica] 32:53 Silica binds with aluminum. It does that in the crust of the earth also aluminum silicate is a non-toxic compound which the body is able to remove. A key strategy in efforts to cleanse aluminum from your body is to bring large amounts of silica into your system. There are different ways of doing that. But ingesting ground-up glass which they tried in Germany, is not working. In Russia they have a silica gel but unfortunately the body doesn’t absorb it well enough to help. We have to use herbal plants, which have silica as only they can get into the central nervous system and get the aluminum out.”
He does go on. though, to talk about different ways to remove aluminum.
I hope he is found safe for sure. I do have a question that is relevant but might be considered bad taste. How in the hell would anyone let a loved one travel alone with alzhiemers so far? That is totally inconsiderate. If you know a person has a problem like that, how could you let him travel without an eye on him. This I do not understand. Good thoughts that he is safe somewhere and is found very soon. This should, in no doubt, be a lesson learned.
I don’t know about other but it is a very hard decision to start taking rights away from a parent. First you canlt simply do it if they object. They must be reported to officials who force compliance.
I was just at the point of trying that with my own father when he refused to give up driving. He had an accident driving to another town and, after a discussion, he said he would only drive close to home to take Mom shopping or to the doctors. Well, ok but then he didn’t. So another discussion. He said again he knew better. And indeed he never drove past the bridge. Instead he had an accident, luckily involving only himselaf, near home. You can’t sell his car against his will, the DMV renewed his license when I was hoping they wouldn’t even though they had to give him two tries at the eye exam. No family lived near them and they refused to move. But I was at the point of turning him in when his health suddenly failed and he died. But it was a process changing from respecting your parents to turning them in and I had tried to avoid it with reasonable compromises.
That must have been incredibly difficult. I am so sorry. I had something similar happen though my dad eventually stopped driving on his own.
My mother and Aunt started the process through the DMV for my beloved grandfather.
The DMV initiated tests and confirmed he was not fit to drive anymore.
He went to hitchhiking and bus rides from Mill Valley to San Francisco, where his office was – in his family business that he started in the 40’s.
He didnt do much for the company at that point in the early 2000 era. But some people need to stay busy – we loved him dearly and kept his office space for him.
Hithiking and bus rides were better in the end anyway, as his greatest passion and gift was the gift of gab.
I dont think he ever heard of my mother and aunts actions, and that’s ok. They were right, and they waited as long as they could safely wait to initiate the process.
He spent a decade editing his own obituary. “Peter would claim…”
https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/marinij/166989127
Love ya, Grandpa!
Three comments.
1. Please do not judge people, particularly when they are suffering and in pain. Support them. Give positive encouragement and good vibes. Trust me they do not need your negative vibes and comments right now. This is a heart wrenching story. I know one of the family members. She is an awesome person. Please save your judging lecturing and scolding.
2. Thank you for sharing Peter Rhodes obituary. I enjoyed reading it. Awesome family and man.
3. My mother died in a resting home due to several strokes causing her brain to deteriorate. She hated being there. We hated having to have her there. She was active and driving and independent until her stroke at 80. It was very hard to deny her dignity and freedom. Be kind when you make comments about people’s loved ones. Be grateful for what you have now. You never know what can happen to you tomorrow.
Peace
Love to the family and hope for John’s safe return