Family and KC police ask for help locating missing woman, 63, impaired by stroke

After suffering a stroke a year ago, Inous Revels generally stayed home.

Mostly, the 63-year-old grandmother stayed in bed and slept because of the impairment she sustained.

That’s why relatives are mystified why Revels walked out of her home near 51st Street and Woodland Avenue on Friday without telling anyone, including her seven children and her longtime live-in boyfriend.

On Thursday, Kansas City police again asked the public’s help to find Revels. Relatives concerned about her safety filed a missing person’s report. Since then, relatives and others have searched throughout the city for Revels.

“She is a very sweet, harmless woman. It is not like her to be gone like this,” her daughter, LaTonya Bates, said Thursday. “She has never done anything like this before.”

Revels’ boyfriend, Gordon Wilson, told relatives that they were sitting on their couch Friday evening. Revels had watched television news and was aware of the forecast that called for freezing rain.

Wilson said he fell asleep while they sat on the couch. When he awoke, Revels was gone, he said.

The couple did not own a car and Revels did not drive. If she went anywhere, Revels usually accompanied her sister or a friend who lives down the street. She caught the bus to the grocery store or to the casino, Bates said.

Revels went to the emergency room two Sundays ago after she fell in the kitchen and experienced chest pains. However, doctors said there was nothing wrong with her, Bates said.

Revels was born and raised in Kansas City. She attended Lincoln High School. Prior to suffering a stroke a year ago, Bates did custodial work. Revels and Wilson have been together for 26 years.

The whole neighborhood knew Revels and adored her. She would give the neighborhood kids candy and Popsicles.

“She is a really sweet lady so I am not sure how she is gone and no one knows where she is and no one has seen her,” Bates said. “She just, like, vanished. It is weird to me like how she is just gone.

“I don’t want to think that but where would she be? It is so weird,” she said.

Revels is African-American, 5-feet 1-inch tall and weighs about 85 pounds. She has short black hair and brown eyes. The last time anyone saw Revels, she was wearing a red-and-black Chiefs coat and denim jeans.

Anyone with information should call 911 or Kansas City Police Department Missing Persons unit at 816-234-5136.

This story was originally published January 19, 2017 at 10:58 AM with the headline "Family and KC police ask for help locating missing woman, 63, impaired by stroke."