Barbara Thomason, 63, was last seen September 26, 2011, in Princeton, West Virginia. She disappeared from the Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center on 12th Street Extension, where she had been a patient for more than two decades and attended the adult day care program. On the morning she vanished she was doing routine chores and was last seen at about 11:10 a.m. near Princeton Community Hospital wearing a Virginia Tech t-shirt, blue jeans, tennis shoes, and a blue jacket.

Ms. Thomason was a dependent adult who missed her daily medication the day she went missing, raising concern that she could become ill. She did not own a car, so she either left on foot or was given a ride; how she left the center’s vicinity is unclear. In the autumn after her disappearance there were unconfirmed possible sightings in Bluefield, Welch, and Tazewell, but none were verified. Law enforcement was notified the day after she was last seen and the case was entered into national missing-persons databases. Her whereabouts remain unknown.

If anyone has information about where Barbara might have gone that day or recalls seeing someone matching her description, please share what is known with investigators.