Police are investigating the disappearance of a Chester Township mother of three.
Police say that early Wednesday morning, 34-year-old Ronda Garnett, who lives on the 3900 block of Gideon Road, called her mother from her job at the Fair Acres Geriatric Center in Lima, Pa.
Garnett reportedly told her mother that she was feeling sick and that she was on her way to her house to pick up her three children on the west side of Chester.
Garnett then left Fair Acres around 1:30 a.m. Police say that a surveillance video confirmed that Garnett left the center in her car at that time and travelled south on Route 352. No one has seen or heard from her since then.
"She was supposed to be coming here to pick the children up but she never arrived," said Ronda's mother Linda-Garnett Word.
Linda and other friends and family of Ronda told authorities that she is normally always in constant contact with them and is either at work or with her children.
"She's a loving mother. Her life is built around her children," said Linda.
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"We've checked with the neighbors, we've checked with people that she's had normal contact with," said Officer James Mullen of the Chester Township Police.
"Nobody's seemed to have seen her. Nobody's heard from her."
Garnett is described as a black woman of medium complexion, standing 5-foot-9 and weighing 250 pounds with short to medium length black hair and brown eyes.
She also has a tattoo on her upper right arm that reads “classy lady” as well as nose and ear piercings.
She was last seen wearing pink nursing scrubs, white shoes and a black jacket with fur around the hood.
Police say that Garnett’s car is also missing. She drives a 1994 tan Oldsmobile 88 with a Pa. license plate that reads “HGL-7554.”
"We drove the route that she would take home on a normal basis and we haven't found a car in any of the parking lots along the way," said Officer Mullen.
Anyone with information on Garnett’s whereabouts should contact Officer Mullen or Officer Merritt Harman at 610.494.0211.
