{"id":243479,"date":"2026-03-30T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243479\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:04:30","slug":"vigil-held-for-missing-oakland-coffee-shop-owner-as-search-intensifies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243479\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil held for missing Oakland coffee shop owner as search intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7jweot9r8dyungvn.jpg\" alt=\"Vigil held for missing Oakland coffee shop owner as search intensifies\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/fmc-hzyvs5eojhqv0rxc\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vigil held for missing Oakland coffee shop owner as search intensifies<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">Friends, family and community members gathered Sunday evening at Lake Merritt for a vigil honoring missing Oakland coffee shop owner Amy Hillyard, as a growing search effort continues for the 52-year-old mother of two. Hillyard was last seen Wednesday around 2 p.m. leaving her home in Oakland\u2019s Cleveland Heights neighborhood. Authorities say she is considered at risk due to a medical condition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Friends, family and community members gathered Sunday evening at Lake Merritt for a vigil honoring missing Oakland coffee shop owner Amy Hillyard, as a growing search effort continues for the 52-year-old mother of two.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Hillyard was last seen Wednesday around 2 p.m. leaving her home in Oakland\u2019s Cleveland Heights neighborhood. Authorities say she is considered at risk due to a medical condition. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Several hundred people have joined search efforts over the weekend, canvassing neighborhoods and posting flyers in hopes of finding her. Supporters say they remain hopeful she will be found safely.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;If you\u2019re an Oakland resident and you have a Ring camera or other surveillance camera, please review the footage,&#8221; said Tom Green, a friend helping organize search efforts.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Hillyard is well known locally as the co-owner of Farley\u2019s Coffee, with locations in Oakland and San Francisco\u2019s Potrero Hill neighborhood. Friends describe her as a unifying presence in the community.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;She\u2019s the kind of person that collects people, brings people together,&#8221; said friend Serena Khaira. &#8220;When you have a problem, she\u2019s generally the first person you reach out to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Hillyard also played a role in founding Oakland\u2019s Urban Montessori Charter School.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">During Sunday\u2019s vigil, an endangered missing advisory was sent to cellphones across the region, heightening awareness of her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;This is her town, this is her community,&#8221; said Khaira. &#8220;If we can bring awareness to it, keep her name in everyone\u2019s mind, someone has to see her, someone has to know where she is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Oakland police are asking anyone with information to contact the department\u2019s Missing Persons Unit at 510-238-3641.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vigil held for missing Oakland coffee shop owner as search intensifies Friends, family and community members gathered Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-243479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}