Nancy Guthrie's neighbors plead: No more flowers outside her Tucson home

Theresa Braine, New York Daily News on May 12, 2026

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Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood association has asked supporters to stop leaving mementos and flowers outside her Tucson residence three months after her apparent dead-of-night abduction, citing warmer temperatures and encroaching wildlife.

“I write this message with a very heavy heart as our friend and neighbor, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing,” Catalina Foothills Association president Will Pew wrote Monday in the organization’s latest newsletter. He recognized that “leaving flowers, missives and other items at Nancy’s house has been fueled by good intentions” but said “javelinas, packrats, wind and increasing temperatures” were making it difficult to maintain the area and keep it safe. The newsletter encouraged well-wishers instead to donate to World Vision, “an organization that Nancy loves,” that works to end poverty.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, was abducted from her home in the wee hours of Feb. 1. Three months later, her case remains open, and the makeshift memorial outside her home has continued to grow. On Sunday Savannah Guthrie marked the family’s first Mother’s Day without their matriarch in a video montage.

“While we share collective shock, sadness and disbelief, we have also been struck by the messages of caring and solidarity that the CFA has received from so many of you and at the outpouring of gestures of kindness and compassion, such as tying yellow ribbons on the street in front of your own homes,” Pew wrote. “We stand together.”

However, the influx of people who descended on the neighborhood had put Nancy’s immediate neighbors on edge and generated reports of “behavior from nonresidents that is disrespectful of neighbors and the surrounding area,” Pew wrote. “That’s exacerbated by recent Ring camera footage that has been circulating showing a masked figure stealing potted cacti from someone’s driveway, although there is no apparent connection to Guthrie’s case.”

“I urge you to keep Nancy and her family in your thoughts and to respect their privacy,” Pew concluded. “Our homes may be relatively far apart, but we, as neighbors, are closer than ever.”