Found Safe CA - Shelly Jennings, 50, Redding, 5 Dec 2016

[JerseyGirl]

Shelly Jennings, who also goes by the name Suzanne Jennings or Suzanne Ford, is thought to have mental health issues and memory loss.

She has been missing since she dropped her daughters off at school one day and never returned to pick them up.

That was in 1993.

Monday, Sheriff’s deputies found and arrested Jennings in Cottonwood for public intoxication, and later released her Tuesday in Redding.

Her daughter Brandy Chapman flew in from Oklahoma and tracked her down to the Good News Rescue Mission.

Guests at the mission say Jennings spent two nights there last week, but had not returned.

Members of the public have reported spotting Jennings in Anderson and as far south as Chico.

Jennings is 50 years old and thought to be about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weigh 140 pounds with coppery-blonde hair.


http://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/w...rth-state-daughter-asks-for-help-finding-her/

 

[Gardener1850]

[h=1]Woman asks for help to find mother missing for decades[/h]

The daughter of a woman missing for more than 20 years is asking for the public's help. Brandy Chapman's mother, 50 year old Shelly Jennings, has been spotted in Northern California multiple times within the last two decades.

Chapman received a call to her Oklahoma home on Dec. 22 from five people in Stockton, saying they had let Jennings stay at their home. They had not realized Jennings was missing until after she left and they saw a poster with her face. They said they ran into Jennings at a laundromat in Stockton, and decided to take her home to sleep on their couch for a few days. The callers apologized to Chapman for not seeing the poster sooner, saying Jennings was very mentally ill and does not know people are looking for her.

http://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/woman-asks-for-help-to-find-mother-missing-for-decades/

 

[Gardener1850]

Shelly Jennings also goes by the name Suzanne Jennings or Suzanne Ford. Jennings disappeared in 1993 after dropping her daughters off at school, never picking them up.

Jennings was arrested for public intoxication on Dec. 5, and was released in Redding. Once Chapman heard the news, she jumped on a plane from Oklahoma to Redding, in hopes of finding her mother. Chapman says she's disappointed for having missed her mother several times in Redding. However, Chapmasn is not discouraged and continues to try to get Jennings' picture out in hopes that she will receive another call as she did from Stockton.

http://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/woman-asks-for-help-to-find-mother-missing-for-decades/

 

[Gardener1850]

Here's the fb page her daughter set up: https://www.facebook.com/Finding-Shelly-Jennings-Missing-since-1993-190510328079174/

 

[LisaWL7TR]

Here's the fb page her daughter set up: https://www.facebook.com/Finding-Shelly-Jennings-Missing-since-1993-190510328079174/

I wonder where she has been all this time? I mean like has she been in the same state?

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[Gardener1850]

I wonder where she has been all this time? I mean like has she been in the same state?

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IDK. Maybe we can find her arrest records and see if there is a pattern to where she has been?

 

[Gardener1850]

I found records that show she was born in California. She was in Oklahoma in the 1980's. She lived in California in the late 90's and she lived in Florida in the 2000's. If she is having memory issues, maybe she tried to go back to California where it was familiar to her?

Some address records:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KG3K-1MS
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJLW-TDGJ
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJVX-7M83
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ1C-BZ3N
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLX2-8DZ

 

[LisaWL7TR]

I found records that show she was born in California. She was in Oklahoma in the 1980's. She lived in California in the late 90's and she lived in Florida in the 2000's. If she is having memory issues, maybe she tried to go back to California where it was familiar to her?

Some address records:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KG3K-1MS
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJLW-TDGJ
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJVX-7M83
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ1C-BZ3N
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLX2-8DZ

It seems she hasn't had an easy life.

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[Gardener1850]

Shelly Suzanne Jennings’ daughters recently heard a story that breaks their hearts.

Their 50-year-old, mentally ill mother was homeless in Redding and had been sleeping in front of a business there. When the owner arrived one morning to chase her off, Jennings became agitated.
“My three daughters are coming to get me,” she scolded the business owner. “And they’re bringing the little dog.”
“But the gentleman she was with, who didn’t know about her past, said, ‘Suzanne, you don’t have any kids,’ ” said one of her daughters, Rachel Ford of Oklahoma. “He didn’t know she has three daughters who have been looking for her for years.”
Their story involves deep ties to Modesto where, they believe, she is at this very moment, though she might be somewhere else tomorrow or by next week. Her story could be told through the lives of so many living on the Valley’s streets, perhaps with kin looking for them as well.

http://www.modbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/jeff-jardine/article123408889.html

This is just heart breaking. She needs to be found. She needs to know her daughters still love her and want to get her the care she needs.

 

[Gardener1850]

More background:

But Jennings is elusive, and not by design, her daughters say. She suffers from schizophrenia compounded by decades of drug and alcohol abuse. She comes by it genetically, with mental illness a family trait. And she is Native American – a Choctaw – a culture with a history of depression, alcoholism and drug use, Ford said.

The background: Jennings left Oklahoma with her two youngest daughters – Rachel and Julie – in 1993 and came to Modesto, where a relative once lived. Brandy remained in Oklahoma with her father, who had legal custody. Here, Jennings began to have episodes that told Rachel her mom was having issues.

“She was saying things what weren’t right, even to a 9-year-old,” Ford said.

Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/jeff-jardine/article123408889.html#storylink=cpy

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[Rayemonde]

I sure hope they find her - and can convince her to go home with them She may not recognise her own family and may not want to go with them

 

[GigTu]

What a sad situation. Sounds like maybe she is developing dementia on top of her other issues. I have a feeling she'll surface again, and this time I hope her daughter can get to her quick enough.

 

[PluggedN]

http://www.actionnewsnow.com/story/...s-found-in-modesto-to-be-reunited-with-family

She was found!!!

 

[Gardener1850]

http://www.actionnewsnow.com/story/...s-found-in-modesto-to-be-reunited-with-family

She was found!!!

Great news! I hope they can get her the care she needs from now on and she won't wander anymore.

 

[GigTu]

YaY! Great news!