Catherine's sister Nathalie, as well as Catherine's two daughters, ask for your continued prayers and good thoughts as well during this understandably most difficult of times. I've included a prayer at the end of this Note in case you wished to use it.

http://www.michigansthumb.com/articles/2009/09/22/news/local_news/doc4ab8e682e98d0065518098.txt

Search continues today at Port Crescent park

By Kate Hessling, Tribune Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:19 PM EDT

HUME TOWNSHIP — A search is expected to resume today for a missing 48-year-old Detroit area woman believed to have last been at the Port Crescent State Park Day Use area.

“Something is very suspicious here,” said Huron County Sheriff Kelly J. Hanson, as search efforts were under way Monday for Catherine Nativite Hoskinson, of Madison Heights, in regards to the reason for her disappearance.

Police are looking for any information on who may have been at the day use area in Hume Township on Sunday afternoon or evening and can recall seeing a white female who is 5-feet, 7-inches tall and approximately 145 pounds with blonde hair and green eyes.

Hanson said Huron County Central Dispatch received a call from Park Manager Betsy Kish at about 1 p.m. Monday, reporting some personal items had been found at the day use area beach, and she felt someone may be missing.

Hanson told the Tribune a local morning beach walker was walking the day use area at about 10 a.m. Monday when she came across some clothes, car keys, a Michigan’s driver’s license and cell phone on the beach near the eastern edge of the day use swimming area.

He said the car keys fit the locks of a 2008 Pontiac Grand Am, which was parked in the parking lot near the beach. Investigators learned Hoskinson’s identity from her driver’s license and matching car registration.

Hanson said park officials told police the last time park personnel attended to the parking lot near the swimming area Sunday was at about 8:30 p.m., at which time there still had been vehicles in that lot. However, park officials couldn’t say for sure if Hoskinson’s vehicle was one of the cars there Sunday evening.

However, police do believe the woman had been there overnight, because her belongings were soaked from Monday morning’s rain, and all footprints were washed away, Hanson said.

Also, the sheriff said, Hoskinson’s family told police she was missing, probably since Sunday, as they hadn’t heard from her since about 2:30 p.m. that day.

Other information gathered from Hoskinson’s family members indicate she has had some recent personal issues and has been depressed, Hanson said.

As a result, police believe she may have committed suicide, but the sheriff said that’s just one possibility, as Hoskinson could have innocently drowned, or even have had been abducted.

“It could have been an abduction, but information from the family shows and her personal belongings show it most likely was a suicide,” Hanson said. “Everything’s adding up to where it’s little more than a hunch now.

The U.S. Coast Guard assisted in Monday’s search using a helicopter and boat along with one of the Huron County Sheriff Office’s patrol boats that also was on scene. Port Crescent State Park personnel also assisted the Huron County Sheriff’s Office by searching the park on foot.
The search was suspended at dark and was scheduled to resume at daylight this morning, Hanson said.

He noted it’s been difficult locating Hoskinson because no one has actually reported seeing her in the water, therefore, searchers do not have a particular location they can focus their efforts on.

“We’re out there looking for a needle in a hay stack,” Hanson said.

He said if search efforts are not successful in locating Hoskinson, and her body really is located in the bay, nature may take its course over the next few days. That is because today and Wednesday are expected to be warmer days, which will cause Hoskinson’s body to decompose to a point where it will rise to the surface.

Anyone who may have seen Hoskinson is asked to call (989) 269-6421, Hanson said.

Kate Hessling • (989) 269-6461 • khessling@hearstnp.com

Other Links:
http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=353305

http://www.sanilacbroadcasting.com/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkVFyEyklAujWTIJUL

http://www.helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16939

Port Crescent State Park website: http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?id=486&type=SPRK

Map of the area

Prayers for Catherine and her Family

Almighty God, may You & all the angels and Saints watch over Catherine. Let her know how much she is loved. Keep her from harm's way, and protect her soul from temptation. Strengthen Catherine's body and soul on her journey, and provide her with her necessities. Please guide her in what she does, and, if it be Your Will, lead her back home to her loved ones. Amen.

Dear Lord, I ask for the graces necessary for Catherine's loved ones to be able to carry this cross. Even though it may seem like the darkest of times, let them know that the light of Your Love shines ever so brightly upon them and that You have wrapped them in the mantle of Your most generous and Sacred Heart. Please, Lord, as a new day dawns without Catherine, let them know that as they take each difficult step forward, You are right there by their side. When they falter, let them know that it is You who pick up their cross & enable them to carry on. May they never doubt Your immense love of them, & may they find the peace & joy that comes from loving You. Amen.