{"id":331990,"date":"2026-05-25T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331990\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:13:24","slug":"vigil-planned-for-missing-coffee-shop-owner-amy-hillyard-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331990\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil planned for missing coffee shop owner Amy Hillyard \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vigil will be held Monday night for a coffee shop owner who has been missing for two months.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Hillyard, 52, co-owner of Farley&#8217;s coffee shops, was last seen on March 25 in two Oakland locations: first in the 500 block of Radnor Road in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood about 2 p.m., and then she was spotted on video at Dimond Park at about 4:30 p.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p>A March 31 search of Dimond Park was carried out by OPD along with the Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin county sheriff&#8217;s offices, and 60 of Hillyard&#8217;s friends, family and volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Hillyard is described as white, 5 feet 4 inches tall, 120 pounds, with blond hair and hazel eyes. Her clothing is said to be light blue jeans, a white shirt, and white tennis shoes with black stripes, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>She is considered to be at-risk because of medical conditions, police said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a &#8220;Vigil of Hope &amp; Awareness for Amy Hillyard&#8221; will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at Mandana Plaza Park, 600 Mandana Blvd. in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>The vigil is also being held to mark National Missing Persons Month and the hundreds of missing Bay Area individuals who go missing each year&#8211;and their families who are grieving.<\/p>\n<p>A reward of $25,000 is being offered for information leading to Hillyard&#8217;s safe return, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bringamyhome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website Bring Amy Home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call the Oakland Police Department&#8217;s Missing Persons Unit at (510) 238-3641.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vigil will be held Monday night for a coffee shop owner who has been missing for two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3247,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-331990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-missing-persons","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331990","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=331990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}