The family of a 65-year-old ailing Yonkers Pentecostal minister who left home Sunday morning is holding onto hope that she will be found soon and alive.
“She is in a fragile state,” said DaQueen Monroe, the 44-year-old daughter of the missing woman, Ethel Patricia Monroe.
DaQueen Monroe said friends and family were gearing up for a third day of searching Tuesday in the sweltering heat.
Ethel Monroe, known in her church — the Christian Love Tabernacle in Manor House Square — as “Minister Monroe,” is in need of blood-pressure medication and has been undergoing cancer treatment, her family said.
Monroe had been disoriented in the days before she went missing, her family said. She walked out of her Warburton Avenue house at 4 a.m. Sunday.
She remained missing Wednesday morning.
The minister, who limps because of a swollen leg, was seen on video surveillance tape at the Pizza Pizza restaurant on Warburton Avenue about a block north of her home at 5:27 a.m. Sunday. She appears disoriented on the tape, which was obtained by The Journal News and lohud.com.
Yonkers Detective Lt. Patrick McCormack said police had an unconfirmed sighting of Ethel Monroe from the area of Hearst Street and Nepperhan Avenue in Yonkers. At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, a county maintenance worker told police he saw her in Macy’s Park in Ardsley; police are calling this a confirmed sighting because the worker identified Monroe from a photo. She also was seen in the area of the South County Trailway nearby.
Another unconfirmed sighting was reported to police from the Saw Mill River Parkway area of Elmsford on Monday evening, McCormack said.
Yonkers police, assisted by Westchester County police, have been combing a wide area from Yonkers to Elmsford on the Saw Mill River Parkway since Sunday. County police used bloodhounds to search the thick woods along the South County Trailway.
Cleven Monroe, 65, the minister’s husband, told The Journal News and lohud.com on Tuesday that his wife, whom he calls “Pat,” was restless early Sunday.
“I was looking for her, and she was gone,” he said. “She just left. ... That was so strange. She had never done anything like this before.”
Ethel Monroe left the house without her cellphone, eyeglasses, money or identification, her daughter said. She was wearing a beige-and-white jacket, white cap and flip-flops. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, has white hair and weighs about 170 pounds. She also goes by the name “Trisha,” her family said.
“We don’t know where she can be,” DaQueen Monroe said.
http://www.lohud.com/article/20130709/NEWS02/307090053/Yonkers-minister-missing-since-Sunday-family-searching
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