The search continues for missing 68-year-old Lorraine Williams of St. Stephen.
Williams’ daughter, Elaine Morley, says her mother has been retired for about five years, walks every day, and picks up cans and bottles off the side of the road.
“She has a couple different routes that she walks. She goes alone, usually out the Ledge Road, and then downtown, up around Milltown. Sometimes she goes out the [Route] #3. It’s not abnormal for her to go sometimes two or three hours. Even longer sometimes.”
Morley says, however, there has never been a time when she hasn’t come home before.
“My dad realized, kinda when it was getting dark Sunday night, that maybe she wandered off the beaten path. So he started looking for her along with my neighbours, and then contacted the police that evening that it’s not normal for her not to come home.”
Morley lives in St. Catherine’s, Ontario, and traveled to New Brunswick upon hearing of her mother’s disappearance.
“You just go back and forth. sobbing, crying, to basically just feeling numb. It’s so surreal. You see this stuff on movies, you don’t ever expect it to happen to you.”
She also wants to clarify her mother goes by the name Lorraine, not Edith Lorraine, as some reports have previously stated.
She is afraid some may not have recognized her mother’s legal name.
RCMP are searching for 68-year old Lorraine Williams, who was seen on Sunday in St. Stephen.
“She’s worked at the Superstore in St. Stephen, she worked there for fifteen years probably. Very social, loves to talk to people, adores children. She’s been a part of this community for forty years that she’s lived here.”
The RCMP and Charlotte County Ground Search & Rescue have set up a command post between Lincourt Manor and the Charlotte County Hospital.
“They have everything gridded, where everybody’s been, searched on land and water, with the helicopter, with the drone. Every clue that they’ve got, any call that they’ve got, they’ve followed up on. It’s just putting timelines together on what makes sense and where she was last seen. It’s trying to uncover every rock and unfortunately nothing’s coming up.”
Morley tells us the community support has been outstanding, adding there are nine different Search & Rescue teams from all over the province helping in the search.
“The people who are reaching out and searching, even if it’s only for an hour, or fifteen hours, or whatever people are doing. The search & rescue teams that have come down. They have the helicopters, the drones, they put in dive teams this morning into the water. They’ve absolutely been outstanding in everything they’ve done. Respectful, support, the food, the phone calls, everybody is just reaching out and it’s overwhelmingly amazing.”
Lorraine Williams was last seen on Sunday, July 7th, around 5:30 p.m., on Prince William Street walking towards King Street in St. Stephen.
She also has a medical condition that may cause her to be disorientated.
Williams is described as 5’6 tall, weighing about 140 pounds, with short salt-and-pepper coloured hair and blue eyes.
She was last seen wearing knee-length dark shorts, a grey t-shirt and white sneakers.
Morley asks the public to simply keep an eye out for her mother and report any tips or clues.
“Just keep an eye out for anything whether you’re walking on the trail, you’re walking by the water. Just be watching incase she turns up anywhere.”
If you have any information about Lorraine Williams’ disappearance, contact the St. Stephen RCMP at (506) 466-7030
