Police search for missing Aurora woman

Aurora police are on the lookout for a missing 79-year-old woman last seen on Chicago’s South Side.

Lois L. Boyd, of the 0-99 block of South Stolp Avenue, was reported missing Friday by her son, Aurora authorities said.

Boyd’s son told police that he dropped his mother off at the Aurora train station Thursday morning so that she could visit her daughter in Chicago.

According to a release from Aurora police, Boyd checked in with her son several times during the day. Just before 8 p.m. she called and told him that she was at the bus station at 95th and King Drive, and that she planned to take a bus to Union Station, where she’d then catch a train to Aurora.

She made that call from another person’s cellphone, saying that hers had died, police said. Officers contacted the person who lent Boyd her cellphone and she confirmed that story.

Boyd’s son called police when his mother was not on the last Metra train to stop at Aurora in the early morning hours Friday.

Police describe Boyd as a dark-skinned black woman who stands 5-foot-6 and weighs 165 pounds. She was last seen wearing a short, dark brown wig; a long black cloth coat on top of a lime-green hooded sweatshirt; light jeans; and black Reebok shoes. Police said she has brown eyes and is missing some upper and lower teeth.

She is not on any medications, but family members said she could be suffering from dementia, the release said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Aurora police at (630) 256-5500.