Ms. Wells, 23, was last seen at Graham Central Station nightclub in Longview on Aug. 3, 2006.HENDERSON -- The sixth annual national tour to bring awareness of missing children and adults will stop here at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
The "On the Road to Remember Tour" of volunteers from the North Carolina-based Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons will be at Henderson Plaza Shopping Center, 2309 U.S. Highway 79 South.
There will be a concert by Cal Riley. People are invited to bring lawn chairs, listen to the music and look over pictures of missing people.
The Henderson stop will be held by families of East Texas missing persons Shirley Hunt, Jimmy Charles Scott and Brandi Ellen Wells.
Ms. Hunt. 72, of Henderson, an Alzheimer's patient, disappeared in June 2007 when she went for a stroll along County Road 454.
Scott, 50, disappeared Nov. 3, 2001, in Cherokee County.
Ms. Wells, 23, was last seen at Graham Central Station nightclub in Longview on Aug. 3, 2006.
The tour began Tuesday in Roberson County, N.C., and will cover approximately 4,800 miles. It will include 23 preplanned rally stops in seven states to promote a mixture of 104 missing person cases before the tour ends on Aug. 29.
This year's tour honors Rachel Cooke, a cross-country runner who disappeared during a morning jog Jan. 10, 2002, in her neighborhood in the
North lake development on Farm-to-Market Road 3405, northwest of Georgetown.
"After many years, cases fade from the public's radar, but for the families and friends of the missing, the nightmare continues," said the center founder, Monica Caison, who is leading the caravan of volunteers. "We are traveling across the country to make sure no case fades from memory."
The cases featured are a small number compared to statistics of thousands of missing person cases reported annually, Ms. Caison said.
The annual tour was created to generate new interest in cold cases of missing people across the nation, according to the center founder.
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