Halifax police say missing Northwood resident in Bedford found safe

The family of a long-term care home resident in the Halifax area say they are relieved their loved one has been found safe after being missing for nearly 24 hours.

“She has been found, thank you, Jesus,” Katelyn Berrigan, Patricia Levy’s granddaughter, said shortly after learning the news Monday afternoon. “She’s found and she’s OK.”

Berrigan is thankful for community support and volunteers who helped with the search efforts.

“Everybody, we thank you so much,” Berrigan said. “Without you guys, this would not have been possible.”

Berrigan said her grandmother, Patricia Levy, was last seen Sunday at about 1:40 p.m. Sunday leaving the Bedford Campus of Northwood on Gary Martin Drive with her walker.

In an update on Monday around 11:15 a.m, police let the public know that Levy had been found safe.

Levy was found in the woods, said family friend Thomas McQuinn.

“She managed to wander off a path, which is crazy in itself,” he said.

But with little sleep and plenty of stress worrying about her grandmother, Berrigan is just thankful there was a positive outcome.

“It’s a weight that I wouldn’t want anybody to feel,” she said. “I thank everybody for lifting that weight up off me and my family.”

“Especially how things are in the world right now, for people to drop everything, till one o’clock, two o’clock last night, still getting people showing up with flashlights, quads, the whole nine yards,” McQuinn said, It’s amazing.”

Halifax police spokesperson Const. John McLeod said police are “very pleased to see we had a positive result of our search.”

McLeod didn’t know how many searchers were involved, but said there were many.

“We really greatly appreciated our partners we had in this search,” McLeod said. “The ground search and rescue teams that came from all over Nova Scotia, in fact, to help assist with this search and helped us to bring this to a very positive conclusion.”

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