Patricia Margaret Phillips was 29 years old when she was last known to have been in contact with family in early February 1979 while in Buffalo, Wyoming. NamUs lists her case as Missing Person / NamUs #MP14857, with a date of last contact of February 1, 1979, while The Charley Project reports that she last contacted her sister on February 2, 1979. The available public records agree on the central circumstance: Patricia’s sister was the last known family member to hear from her, and after that
contact, Patricia did not get in touch with her family again. Her whereabouts remain unknown.
Patricia is described in online missing-person records as a White woman with blond or strawberry-blond hair and blue eyes. She was about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed approximately 150 pounds. Her hair was naturally curly, and she wore eyeglasses with very thick lenses. She was also hard of hearing or hearing-impaired, a detail noted in both NamUs data and The Charley Project. The Charley Project additionally states that Patricia suffered from mental illness, making her classification as endangered especially concerning.
At the time she disappeared, Patricia was in Buffalo, a small community in Johnson County, Wyoming. The Charley Project reports that she was driving a blue Ford when she was last in contact with her sister. Available online sources do not provide a clear, fully documented route, destination, or explanation for why communication stopped. The public summary is brief and heartbreaking: Patricia was heard from by her sister, then seemingly vanished from her family’s lives, leaving those who loved her without answers for decades.
Patricia may have used the last name Lawrence, and some older online references list that surname as an alias or nickname variation. Public records also contain minor discrepancies in the exact last-contact date, with some sources listing February 1, 1979 and others February 2, 1979. Those differences appear to reflect variations among case summaries rather than a resolved timeline. What remains consistent is that Patricia disappeared from the Buffalo, Wyoming area in February 1979 and has not been publicly reported as located.
The attached case data does not list Patricia’s case resolution status as Alive or Deceased, and online sources reviewed continue to describe her as missing. Because no public source located here indicates she has been found alive or deceased, her case should be treated as an unresolved missing-person case. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation states that Wyoming law enforcement agencies work cooperatively on unsolved missing-person cases and asks anyone with information to contact the agency of jurisdiction or DCI. In Patricia’s case, the investigating agency listed publicly is the Buffalo Police Department.
Patricia’s disappearance represents more than a short case entry. She was a daughter, a sister, and a woman whose family was left with unanswered questions after a final known contact more than four decades ago. The limited public information makes the case especially painful: there are no widely available details explaining what happened after she spoke with her sister, no public confirmation of where she went next, and no clear resolution. Any credible information, even if it seems small after so many years, could still matter to those seeking answers about what happened to Patricia Margaret Phillips.Last Seen: Feb 1, 1979
