MORGAN HILL
– The family of a Morgan Hill woman reported missing Friday is
en route to Oregon to bring her home.
Alice J. Kay, 52, was found safe Sunday afternoon in North Bend,
Ore. She had been reported missing after failing to show up for
work at the Bailey Road IBM facility.
MORGAN HILL – The family of a Morgan Hill woman reported missing Friday is en route to Oregon to bring her home.
Alice J. Kay, 52, was found safe Sunday afternoon in North Bend, Ore. She had been reported missing after failing to show up for work at the Bailey Road IBM facility.
Kay was last seen at her house on Casa Grande, near Jackson Elementary School, having dropped her son off at Britton Middle School shortly after 8 a.m.
Kay, according to Morgan Hill Police Sgt. Mark Brazeal, was found in a Baskin Robbins ice cream store in North Bend about 3:30 p.m. Sunday after employees of the store had called police for a
welfare check on a disoriented woman in the store since it opened. Kay did not appear to be in the company of anyone else, police said.
North Bend police asked her for identification, ran the driver’s license through MUPS (the Missing and Unidentified Persons’ System), found Kay’s name on the missing person’s list and contacted MHPD.
Kay’s white 1999 Ford Explorer was found parked nearby, noticeable by a three-to-four inch Baskin Robbins antenna ice cream cone.
The woman was taken to Bay Area Hospital in nearby Coos Bay where she was listed in stable condition, though the hospital declined to release more information on her. Brazeal said today that Kay’s family had left for Oregon to bring her back.
“Foul play is not suspected at this time,” Brazeal said. He considered it significant that, as of Monday morning, the North Bend police had not contacted MHPD about suspicious signs in Kay’s truck. “This is where it ends for us; the next investigation will be by her family – to find out why this occurred.”
When Kay was reported missing, friends and neighbors immediately formed a volunteer network over the weekend to search the area for her and to compose and distribute flyers about her disappearance. They and police were puzzled by the disappearance because it was out of character for her.
Kay “is an extremely dependable person who follows the same routine on a daily basis,” the flyer stressed.
“Alice is just a fabulous gal,” said Kathleen Keeshan, a friend and retired IBMer. “We are so relieved.”
Brazeal said he had heard from a Starbucks employee in Santa Cruz reporting that they might have served Kay Sunday morning, but the tip turned out to be false.
“That is not possible,” Brazeal said, “since she was in North Bend by about noon.”
