FOUND SAFE: 65-year-old woman who went missing in east Houston while with group located

HOUSTON – The search for a missing woman with dementia had the best possible outcome in southeast Houston Thursday night.

65-year-old Cynthia Marie Simmons disappeared Thursday morning around 10:45 a.m. She was walking with a group from Horizon Adult Day Service when she went missing. The group of five clients and one caregiver was on the way to a park about a block from the center.

The Center’s Director, Casandra North, says it is company policy for two caregivers to be present when clients go for walks. It is not clear how Simmons went missing.

Staff members searched for hours, along with family and police. Simmons was located on a METRO Bus and reunited with her family around 7:30 p.m., about five miles from the day center.

Her family said she had been on the bus the entire time she was missing.

North said the center will be sure that two caregivers are with every group that leaves the facility.


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