Search on for Kansas mom of 3 missing for a week while en route to visit family in Alabama

A week ago Saturday, Marilane Carter left her home in Overland Park, Kan., to drive to Birmingham, Ala., to visit family.

The 36-year-old mother of three never made it, and has not been seen or heard from since.

Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Carter, who was last heard from near Memphis, about two-thirds of the way to her destination.

On Sunday, friends and family sought people familiar with a stretch of the Mississippi River near Memphis to help in the search, according to a Facebook group, Find Marilane, created to locate the missing woman. Friends and supporters also held an online prayer vigil on Saturday.

“We now need MEMPHIS-AREA boaters/fisherman to help us rule out any possibility of Marilane’s vehicle being submerged in the Mississippi River near Memphis,” the group said.

Carter left her home just outside Kansas City to seek mental health help at a facility she used to work at which was also near her parents in Birmingham, family members told KSHB-TV. She was also planning to meet her newborn niece for the first time, ABC News reported.

The last time she was physically seen was in surveillance footage checking into a hotel in West Plains, Mo., at around 3:30 a.m. the next morning. Cameras caught her driving away at around 6 a.m.

Police said she was driving a gray 2011 GMC Acadia. She’s 5-foot-8 and 130 pounds, with long brown hair and green eyes, ABC News said, and was last seen wearing a green T-shirt and black yoga pants.

“She’s a loving mother, loving wife,” husband Adam Carter, a Baptist pastor, told WBRC-TV. “We have a great relationship. I miss her terribly. I want her home. I want her home with our kids.”