Police requesting help locating a missing Doylestown man with dementia

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man with dementia who went missing in Doylestown Township on Wednesday morning. John Foss, 75, was reported missing Oct. 21, according to the Doylestown Township Police Department, who said they are concentrating their efforts around a neighborhoo

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John Foss, 75, was reported missing in Doylestown Township on Oct. 21, 2026. He was last seen in the area of Sugar Bottom Road near Bridge Valley Elementary School wearing a black sweater, khaki pants and black sneakers.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man with dementia who went missing in Doylestown Township on Wednesday morning.

John Foss, 75, was reported missing Oct. 21, according to the Doylestown Township Police Department, who said they are concentrating their efforts around a neighborhood off of Sugar Bottom Road near Bridge Valley Elementary School.

Police say he was wearing a black sweater, khaki pants, and black sneakers, and was last seen around noon at a house in a neighborhood off of Sugar Bottom Road — consisting of St. Lawrence Way, McCarty Drive, Foy Drive and Norris Drive — located near Bridge Valley Elementary School.

Earlier that morning at approximately 8 a.m., police say Foss was spotted walking on Sugar Bottom Road near

the school.

He is considered friendly and not a danger to the public.

Anyone with information should call Doylestown Township Police at 215-348-4200.

Michele Haddon can be reached at mhaddon@usatodayco.com. Please consider supporting local journalism with a subscription.

This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Police requesting help locating a missing Doylestown man with dementia