![]() “We’re really hoping and praying for the best.” “I was going to go blueberry picking this morning but there’s some things that are more important besides work and all of the rest of it,” said Friesen. He’s a close friend of Byman’s and put his own plans aside to join the search. She knows this terrain probably better than anyone out there right now.” “Anything about the woods, berry picking - her and my grandfather knew everything about that stuff and they showed me the way. “She taught me everything I know,” said Geurts. It’s something Geurts said she’s done her entire life. “I told them that I needed their help and they were there.”īyman lives with her husband near the area where she was picking berries, according to RCMP and her grandson. “I just want to find my grandma,” said Geurts. RCMP search and rescue, the Office of the Fire Commissioner and members of the Piney Fire Department have been joined by at least 100 volunteers.īyman’s grandson, Jason Geurts, drove from Winnipeg early Friday and asked seven friends to join him to help with the search. Ryll said the search started Wednesday and continued until Thursday around 9 p.m. “She was blueberry picking with a friend and at four o’clock they were supposed to meet and she didn’t arrive,” said Ryll. Joanne Ryll said the two friends drove about three kilometres south off Provincial Road 201, east of Menisino, to get to their berry-picking spot. and immediately sent a search and rescue team to the area. ![]() The Mounties said they received a report Byman was missing around 9:30 p.m. of Piney, Man., was last seen around 4 p.m. RCMP said Mary Byman, who lives in the R.M. Family, friends, volunteers, and search and rescue personnel combed through thick forest and dense bush in southeastern Manitoba Friday, looking for an 84-year-old woman last seen nearly two days ago picking blueberries with a friend.
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