A 94-year-old great-grandmother is inconsolable after losing an envelope containing several thousand dollars in cash while running errands at Rockwood Mall in Mississauga Wednesday afternoon, March 28.

“We went home and half an hour later, she calls me, crying, saying ‘the money, the money, I can’t find my envelope with the cash in it’,” said Antonietta Colangelo of her mother. “She couldn’t sleep all last night. We adore her, but I don't know how to console her.”

The money was supposed to be Easter gifts for her four great-grandchildren, five grandchildren and two adult children.

Colangelo took her mother to the TD Bank at the mall for the annual withdrawal of cash.

The senior gifts money every Easter and Christmas, which Colangelo said is "thousands of dollars."

“Her idea of life is to give to your children when you’re alive, not dead,” Colangelo said. “She does it every year at Easter and Christmas.”

The cash was in a small brown bank envelope and she put it in her purse before mother and daughter headed to the Dollar Store and the Food Basics to pick up a few groceries.

They retraced their steps, asked the grocery store manager and others, but no one has turned in the money.

Colangelo said she thinks the envelope may have fallen out of her mother’s purse when she pulled plastic shopping bags out to put the groceries in.