{"id":72413,"date":"2025-12-02T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72413\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:59:08","slug":"silver-alert-issued-as-search-continues-for-couple-last-seen-thanksgiving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72413\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Alert issued as search continues for couple last seen Thanksgiving Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CARSON COUNTY, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Texas DPS has now issued a Silver Alert as the search continues for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/2025\/11\/29\/elderly-couple-missing-since-thanksgiving-afternoon\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/2025\/11\/29\/elderly-couple-missing-since-thanksgiving-afternoon\/\">missing elderly couple last seen on Thanksgiving Day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Carson County Sheriff\u2019s Office says Linda and Gary Lightfoot\u2019s family reported them missing November 28.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Elderly couple missing since Thanksgiving afternoon\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6XJQUL76C5HWDGAPMT5DSGZWVE.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1306\" \/>Elderly couple missing since Thanksgiving afternoon(Lightfoot family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The family reported they left Panhandle on Thanksgiving Day around 3 p.m., but they never made it back to their Lubbock home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since then, their vehicle has been scanned by license plate readers in Groom on Thanksgiving evening and San Jon, New Mexico Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Panhandle Police Chief Sace Hardman says the family reported the couple also had trouble finding their way to Panhandle before eventually arriving for the holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chief Hardman says tips have been sent in from surrounding states, but there has been no official sighting of the couple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Mexico State Police and Quay County officials have conducted searches using helicopters and drones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Linda and Gary Lightfoot drive a silver 2024 Toyota Camry with Texas license plate TWN0925.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the couple\u2019s health and safety is considered at risk due to Gary being oxygen dependent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you have any information on where they may be, call the Carson County Sheriff\u2019s Office at (806) 537-3511.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARSON COUNTY, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Texas DPS has now issued a Silver Alert as the search continues for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-72413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}