Adele MORRISON - TRAGICALLY LOCATED DECEASESD
Adele MORRISON - TRAGICALLY LOCATED DECEASESD
The son of missing woman Adele Morrison unsuccessfully tried tracing his mother’s tracks after she went missing in Gloucester on Tuesday. He and police are now urgently seeking the public’s assistance into her whereabouts.
When Adele Morrison left her son’s Port Macquarie home on Tuesday for a day trip to Gloucester, the pair agreed that she’d be back for dinner that night.
But more than 72 hours since then, the 78-year-old still hasn’t returned to despite some clues popping up on police’s radar that she still might be in the Gloucester area.
“I know she was going to the Gloucester cemetery, and I know she made it there because there were some fresh flowers found at my brother’s grave,” Adele’s son, Chris Morrison, said.
“So at least I know she made it there.”
Adele, who lives in Maclean near Grafton, was visiting her son Chris in Port Macquarie this week as it coincided with the anniversary of the death one of Chris’ brother and his father.
While in the area, Adele also wanted to pay her respects to her other son who is buried in Gloucester - a town the family used to live in many years ago.
On Monday night the pair discussed her plans to head to the cemetery and take the scenic drive to their old farm where they grew up.
But when she didn’t return home for dinner on Tuesday, that’s when Chris raised the alarm.
“She was due home Tuesday night … she didn’t take any gear or anything and she was planning to be home for dinner,” he said.
“It was just a day trip down and back. Her phone hasn't worked since I tried on Tuesday afternoon. It just goes straight to voicemail as if its out of range or switched off … there’s been no contact since Tuesday morning.
“I’ve been down there the last two days looking and searching around the roads she could have been on, and near the rivers ... but with all this rain now the rivers are higher and access is harder.
“It’s very unlike her … she is a very capable person, she drives her self everywhere.”
Police today issued a public appeal to help find Adele, and contacted residents in the nearby Gloucester area using geo-location phone technology. Automated texts where sent to people in Gloucester, Barrington, Stratford and Weismantels.
Police investigations revealed she attended a shopping centre at Gloucester about 10.45am on Tuesday, but her movements since remain unknown.
Chris said some fresh flowers where located at his brother’s grave, but can’t be certain what time that was.
“It’s 50 years since we used to live there,” he said. “There’s no one there that we know anymore … the people that we used to work for, they’ve died. She was really just going for a look.”
“We would still visit every six-to-twelve months, just to reminisce. My elder brother is buried there from 1964, I was born there, but we moved away soon afterwards up to Port.
“My father and my other brother are buried here in Port, and it‘s the anniversary of their death this week ... that’s why she came down.”
Adele is described as being of Caucasian appearance, between 150cm to 160cm tall, with a medium build, grey hair and hazel eyes. She is believed to have been travelling in a red 2017 Toyota Corolla with NSW registration plates DSN 47R.
She is known to frequent the Gloucester, Maclean, Nabiac, Berrico and Barrington Tops areas.
Anyone who may have seen or heard from Adele, or who may have seen a red Toyota Corolla with registration DSN 47R on the Mid-North Coast in the past four days is urged to contact police immediately.
NSW Police will undertake a coordinated search of the Barrington River
after a vehicle was found partially submerged in flood waters.
Emergency services will begin the search on Monday, March 29 after
police located a red Toyota Corolla hatch at Barrington East Road,
Barrington at 11.15am on Thursday, March 26.
Manning Great Lakes officers extracted the car from the water with the assistance of state emergency services. No person was located inside the vehicle.
The car is believed to have been owned by a 78-year-old woman, Adele Morrison, who was reported missing by family members on March 17.
She was last seen leaving her home in Port Macquarie about 6am on Tuesday, March 16 to travel to Gloucester. Investigations have revealed Adele attended a shopping centre at Gloucester about 10.45am the same day.
Her movements after this remain unknown and she has not been heard from since. It is also out of character for Adele not to have made contact with family members.
Adele is described as being of Caucasian appearance, between 150cm to
160cm tall, with a medium build, grey hair and hazel eyes.
She is known to frequent the Gloucester, Maclean, Nabiac, Berrico and Barrington Tops areas.
Anyone who may have seen or heard from Adele is urged to contact police immediately.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or nsw.crimestoppers.com.au