Tuktoyaktuk family seeking Bobby Cockney

Its been five months now since anybody in the Cockney family has heard from Bobby Cockney.

The 59-year-old had been living in Edmonton.

• UPDATE JULY 7, 2014: Bobby Cockney hascontacted his family with his new address.

Bobbys younger sister, Noella, lives in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. She says their sister Bonnie in Hay River was the last to speak to him.

He said hed found a place in Vancouver and was gonna be moving there, she says. Before she could get an address from him, he hung up.

Cockney recently retired from Northern Transportation Company Ltd. or NTCL after many years going up the Mackenzie River as atugboat captain.

Every summer he came up the Mackenzie on the tugboats, bringing supplies to the remote communities, Noella says. He was very nice, very willing to help people.

Its just really unusual that he hasnt been contacting anybody in the family.

Noella says Bobbie was in the habit of calling Bonnie or their parents once a month. The family started to get really worried in Maywhen a brother died.

Thats when they contacted police.

Noella says the RCMP had contacted Bobbys bank, the CIBC. They learned that a teller had seen someone who fit Bobbys description taking money out of his account.

We wanted them to put a little note on the file on his account, saying please call home, everybodys worried, but they say they cant do that, Noella says.

For now, Noella has posted Bobbys picture on Facebook and asked friends in B.C. to keep an eye out.

A former RCMP officer herself, Noella is hoping the police will be able to help.

Im just hoping theyll be able to get a hold of him and just tell him to give us a call.