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Post a reply || Back to Message Board Rosemarie Pucino Kiviniemi - Class of 1949
Rose Marie Kiviniemi age 85 Friday, December 30, 2016 - Zebulon, North Carolina A missing elderly woman in Zebulon has been found dead, police confirmed Thursday. The N.C. Center for Missing Persons issued a Silver Alert for Rose Marie Kiviniemi, 85. She was believed to be suffering from dementia or some other cognitive impairment. On Thursday afternoon, the Silver Alert was canceled by the Zebulon Police Department. About 1:30 p.m., Zebulon Police responded to a deceased person call behind a residence in the 600 block of Sexton Avenue. Officers identified the body as that of Kivineimi, who was reported missing on Wednesday. She was found a little less than a mile from her home. Kiviniemi, who was about 5 feet tall and weighed about 80 pounds, was last seen wearing a nightgown and people in her Yates Place neighborhood worried about whether or not she would have survived the cold of night. Neighbors said Kiviniemi was rarely seen outside her home unless she was on her way to a doctor's appointment, so her disappearance was puzzling. Ron Corter, her next-door neighbor, joined in the search for Kiviniemi. "Only to walk the part of the woods that are around the storm water containment area, down here which I thought would be the common way that she would move, and saw nothing," Corter said. ABC11 reached out to Kiviniemi's family, who did not want to make any comments at this time. People who knew Kiviniemi say this is devastating. "The fact that she apparently came out and wandered off some direction makes no sense at all," Corter said. "It's just a sad situation." Rose Kiviniemi, 85, was reported missing from her Yates Place home on Wednesday. Police said she walked away from her home wearing only a white nightgown. Police issued a silver alert for Kiviniemi on Wednesday afternoon. The Wake County Sheriff’s Office brought one of its dogs out to search for her. Police continued their search on foot in an area from Wedgewood Avenue to Worth Hinton Road until about 7:30 Wednesday night. Officers continued to patrol the area heavily throughout the night, but didn’t see Kiviniemi. Zebulon police and firefighters were joined by other volunteers Thursday morning and they searched the entire area again without finding her. Around 1:30 p.m. Thursday, police, fire and rescue responded to a call from a man working in the woods behind a house at 612 Sexton Avenue. He had discovered Kiviniemi’s body in a pile of brush in the backyard near a privacy fence. Zebulon police Capt. Dennis Brannan said it’s unclear how long Kiviniemi may have been there. He said no foul play was suspected in her death. The silver alert issued by the police department said Kiviniemi suffered from a cognitive disorder, but Brannan said this was the first time she had ever walked away from her home, which was about one block away from where she was found. Replies to this post No replies yet |
Rosemarie Pucino Kiviniemi - NFA Class of 1949
- As per her sister Angeline Pucino McDermott's obituary, Rosemarie Pucino Kiviniemi has passed away
December 30, 2016.
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