MODERN technology and good old fashioned human kindness combined to restore a missing Southampton pensioner to her worried family.

Grandmother Geraldine Kerr, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, was missing for 24 hours before she was found seeking refuge in an unlocked car.

Mrs Kerr’s family created an online appeal and were overwhelmed by the public’s response which saw the post shared and commented on several hundred times.

Stephen Coombes, partner of Mrs Kerr’s daughter Simone, who put the original appeal up, said: “It was not just the support of friends and relatives, but complete strangers that had gone out to look for her or shared the post, that amazed us the most.”

Mrs Kerr went missing from her home in Millbrook sparking a police appeal to help find her.

She was found a day later by family friend, Karen Richardson on Great Farm Road, Eastleigh.

Mrs Richardson took the pensioner home, made her a cup of tea and informed the family and police that she was safe.

Mr Coombes said: “I don’t like the term hero, but if it wasn’t for Karen who knows what would have happened.

“It was just so fortunate that she saw her, and messaged us on Facebook.

“We had no idea she was so far away.”

Mrs Kerr’s daughters, Simone, 44, and Alison Jones, 49, thanked the emergency services – which published an appeal on its website – for their help and Millbrook neighbours Weronika and Thomas Strojek who helped track their mother via footage from a CCTV camera.”