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Family shares hopes, fears one week after B.C. senior’s disappearance [Video]

When 82-year-old Jane Whitehouse failed to pick up her young grandson as scheduled last Friday, her family knew something was wrong.

“It was very unusual that she didn’t show up when she said she would and pick someone up when they needed it,” said Jane’s granddaughter, Kendra Craig.

“From there it was report her missing, call the hospitals – because we originally thought maybe a car crash,” said her granddaughter Tessa Antosh.

On Sunday, Whitehouse’s family was dumbfounded when her van was found abandoned in a creak off a remote forest road an hour’s drive north of Harrison Hot Springs.

“It seems extremely random, out of place. Not connected at all. She drove where she knew,” said Antosh.

“It doesn’t seem like her at all,” added Craig. “It doesn’t make sense she would drive up there.”

Kent Harrison Search and Rescue have scoured the area for days — on the …

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