This might be a lead, evidence of another woman's disappearance, or neither.
I'm told there is (or was) a sporadically homeless 60-ish woman named Kathy hanging around the MLT library and park and ride, with a shopping cart and her cat in a carrier. No knowledge of her last name. She sometimes gets temporary housing and/or money from locals. Some of them have taken her in temporarily, but these arrangements have not lasted long. The nicest assessment of her from people who have temporarily housed her is that she is "quirky." When she has no place to stay, she sleeps outside. She doesn't qualify for a number of the homeless shelters because of the cat, whom she will not give up permanently. People have offered to take in the cat while she finds a homeless shelter and gets her life together, but she demands to visit the cat, and people are concerned about her mental stability. She was or is on the wait list for Section 8 and YWCA Pathways for Women, but since she's not a full-fledged senior and doesn't have little kids, she's down on the list. She hasn't been seen in the past month, but perhaps she was finally approved for one of those programs.