Family Pleads For Help Finding Missing Elderly Olivehurst Woman
By Kelly Ryan
OLIVEHURST (CBS13) — The search is on for an elderly Olivehurst woman who went missing last Friday when she drove her car into Marysville to run some errands.
Investigators are trying to piece together sightings and video surveillance before Betty Jean Bowen, 78, disappeared.
"She's never done anything like this before," said her son Frank Bowen.
He and his sisters are desperately trying to find his mother and are handing out flyers with his sisters throughout the area.
"I've been going to the movie theater restaurants grocery stores gas stations," he said.
The 78-year-old woman has brown eyes, gray hair, stands at 5'2" and 100 pounds, and she was driving a 1987 silver Ford Escort.
She was last seen at this Chase Bank in Marysville on Friday, a regular stop for her. That was last Friday. She didn't show up to a baby shower in Grass Valley on Saturday.
Her son says she was not technologically savvy and she doesn't own a cellphone.
Yuba County Deputies checked her home in Olivehurst, but no clues were found. Her neighbors describe her as a very independent woman who drove daily on errands.
For now, her kids are holding out hope someone saw her.
"There's just not a lot little crumbs that right now aren't connecting so that's what we've got very few crumbs," he said.