Sen. Tedisco Emcees Missing Persons Day Ceremony With Mary Lyall

Albany— Sen. Jim Tedisco (R,C-Ballston Lake) earlier this month emceed the 21st annual Missing Persons Day Ceremony at the NYS Museum and Cultural Education Center, which is sponsored by the Center for Hope. 

The event brings together family members of missing persons from across the state to share ways of coping and keeping hope alive, to prevent abductions and share information to find those who are missing. 

Missing Persons Day is organized by Mary Lyall of the Center for Hope in Ballston Spa, whose daughter, Suzanne, went missing from the University at Albany in 1998. 

The Center for Hope, started by Mary and Doug Lyall, has been a national leader in efforts to help find missing persons and advocating for legislation and innovative programs on the state and federal levels. 

“The commemoration of Missing Persons Day has been led by a hero of mine, Mary Lyall, the mother of Suzanne Lyall,” Sen. Tedisco said in a statement. “Mary, and her late husband Doug, founded the Center for Hope in Ballston Spa to advocate for missing persons and for legislation and policies to help families of missing persons and ensure what happened to them did not happen to other families. Through this event, we continue to get the message out about the need to keep remembering those who are missing and to keep hope alive.”