Delores Marie Whiteman, known as Lolly, was last seen in Edmonton, Alberta, on July 17, 1966, at age 21. Born on Standing Buffalo First Nation in Saskatchewan, she lost her mother to tuberculosis at age two, attended a residential school, and later lived in Regina and Saskatoon where she had three children. Those children were removed from her during the Sixties Scoop, after which Delores drifted and contact with family grew sporadic.
Family members received a few late-1960s letters postmarked from Edmonton and there are unconfirmed reports of travel to Vancouver (once with a cousin later murdered), Seattle, Toronto, the Northwest Territories, and time with a man from California. A woman claiming to be Delores spoke to Edmonton police in 1995 but that record was later destroyed and her daughter Lori doubts the identification. Lori provided DNA during the investigation into Robert Pickton but there was no match.
Delores is described as 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 5 inches, medium build, black hair, brown eyes, with a heart and the name Pat tattooed on her left hand and a cross on her right ankle. Does anyone have memories of Delores, her movements after 1966, or information that could help her family?