Police Search For Missing Yonkers Minister, Reports Say

YONKERS, N.Y. -- Yonkers police Thursday are continuing to search for a 65-year-old minister with health issues who was reported missing on Sunday, according to NBC New York.

Yonkers police are searching for 65-year-old minister Ethel Monroe, who went missing Sunday, according to a NBC New York report.
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by Eric Gendron

07/11/2013 9:30 a.m.

Ethel Monroe, who often answers to the name Trish, wandered from her Yonkers home at daybreak Sunday morning dressed in church clothes, according to the report.

According to Monroe's daughter in the article, she has been struggling with cognitive issues lately and is also battling ovarian cancer.

Monroe has been a minister at Love Tabernacle Church for the past 20 years, according to the article.

Monroe was spotted on surveillance video wandering in front of Pizza Pizza on Warburton Avenue in Yonkers. In the video, Monroe is wearing a dress, jacket, hat and flip-flops, and clutching a purse. She is shown taking a seat on the bench in front of the restaurant but appears confused and leaves shortly after sitting, according to the article.

Monroe has reportedly been spotted on several other security camera feeds from Yonkers to Elmsford. Bloodhounds tracked a scent to Hungar Park, near Ardsley, but authorities have yet to locate her, according to the article.

Automated phone calls were also being made across the city, the article said.

Read the full NBC report here.

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