UPDATE: Vandenberg has been located, and she is safe.
Original Story: The Greene County Sheriff’s Office has issued an endangered silver advisory alert. According to the office, 81-year-old Joan Vandenberg, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, left for a local Walmart from 4345 S. Meadowlark in Springfield at 9 o’clock last night and didn’t return.
Vandenberg is 5’3” tall, 124 pounds with gray and brown hair and green eyes. She was wearing a gray shirt, gray shorts, glasses and slip-on tennis shoes.
She was driving a maroon 2016 Ford Escape with license plate # LE4K7H.
Anyone with information should call 9-1-1.
