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Friends distribute flyers about missing diabetic woman

By: By Lisa Marchesoni - Dec. 9, 2007 - 2:17 PM

Friends distribute flyers about missing diabetic woman

TMP Photo by Lisa Marchesoni - Lee Ann Barnes, center, appeals for help in finding her missing mother. From left are sister-in-law Debbie Barnes, husband David, Barnes, father Palmer Smith and daughter Christina.

With her voice trembling, adult daughter Lee Ann Barnes pleaded for help in locating her missing mother, Marsilene Smith. Smith, 69, a diabetic who relies on insulin to live, disappeared Thursday after she left her Village Green home about 1:30 p.m. to shop for Christmas. Surveillance cameras at Wal-Mart on Rutherford Boulevard at 2:30 p.m. showed a man getting a bicycle out of Smith’s Lincoln Navigator and pedaling toward Wine and Spirits. “Please be my eyes and my ears,” Barnes said during a press conference today as she struggled to keep her composure. “I know someone is out there who can help me find my mother.” Brother-in-law Jamie Barnes said the family organized friends, co-workers and church members to distribute flyers with Smith’s photograph and information on where people may call if they know her whereabouts. They gathered Sunday afternoon near Barfield Elementary School to dispatch volunteers in a 5-mile radius “to get as many people aware Mrs. Smith is still missing and we still need to search for her.” Granddaughter Christina Barnes clutched a poster-sized photograph of Smith while her husband, Palmer, and other family members surrounded her during the press conference. People who have any information about her are asked to call Murfreesboro Police at 893-1311 or the Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717. Barnes thanked everyone who has called detectives with information. The family placed flyers about Smith in Murfreesboro businesses. They intend to distribute the flyers to houses around her Barfield neighborhood. Barnes thanked the businesses for allowing her to spread information about her missing mother. “I do want to find my mother,” Barnes said. She thanked Detective Mike Taylor “for sticking with me Thursday night,” and his supervisors, Detective Capt. Chris Guthrie and Detective Maj. Jim Gage. She thanked Wal-Mart for sharing the tapes on the cameras and everyone who has called with information so far. “Please be receptive to the flyers,” Barnes pleaded, adding, “We just want to find my mother.” Sister-in-law Debbie Barnes said the Murfreesboro community is a caring one so she hopes people with information will call with any information the police can put together to find Smith. “We just hope she’s well taken care of because she’s a diabetic,” Debbie Barnes said.

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By: PJ on 12/17/07
I am wondering why there hasn't been any further information on Mrs. Smith? There is a website for her at http://helpfindthemissing.org/marsilene_smith.html

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