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Grandson Launches Search Party for Missing 88-Year-Old Brooklyn Woman as Severe Heat, Storms Loom

What to Know

  • Mary Joyce-Bonsignore was last seen at her Bensonhurst home around 8:30 a.m. Monday
  • Her grandson, Connor Coyne, has a search team out looking for her
  • Coyne says she has dementia; the family wants her home before temperatures soar back into the 90s

An 88-year-old Brooklyn woman who suffers from dementia has been missing for more than 24 hours, and her grandson has launched a search party to help try to find her before temperatures soar back into the unbearably humid 90s. 

Mary Joyce-Bonsignore was last seen around 8:30 a.m. Monday in front of her 19th Avenue home in Bensonhurst. 

She was wearing a straw hat, blue pants, red and white shirt, brown slippers and silver identification hat. 

Anyone with information about her is asked to call police. 

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