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79-Year-Old Man Missing;

Left Medications At Home

EDMESTON – Sheriff’s deputies this afternoon issued a “missing endangered person” report, after George E. Holbert, 79, or Dutch Valley Road, Town of Edmeston, had been reported missing since Sunday.

Holbert is on numerous medications, left at home, that he needs daily, deputies said.  The missing man left his home in a 2012 grey GMC Canyon Quad cab pickup, license plate: DCW-7471.

Anyone with information should call deputies at 547-4273.

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