A 66-year-old man missing since December was found safe in St. Paul on Monday, according to police.

The daughter of Gordon Paul Johnson Sr. asked for the public’s help on Friday to find her father. She said he had a minor stroke in November, was unable to pay his rent and was evicted.

He was missing since Dec. 28 and family members had been searching for him and filed a police report.

On Monday, Johnson’s daughter, Deborah Johnson, said her father was found safe at Union Gospel Mission in St. Paul.

Gordon Johnson Sr.’s son, Gordon Johnson Jr., was killed Nov. 7 by a suspected drunken driver in St. Paul.

“After losing my brother … we have all had a very hard time dealing with the fact that he’s gone and how he left this world,” Deborah Johnson said in an email Monday, adding that her brother had helped take care of her father. “He was my dad’s first born son and named after my dad so I know this hit him very hard.”

Johnson said her mother went to the Union Gospel Mission on Sunday to look for her father. On Monday morning, an employee called police to report that Gordon Johnson Sr. was there, and the police department notified Deborah Johnson’s mother, she said.

Deborah Johnson talked to her dad, told him she loved him and asked where he had been.

His ID was previously stolen and, without one, he told her it was hard to find a place to stay. But he said some shelters allowed him in for a few nights when it very cold. Otherwise, he slept in the streets and had no idea his family was looking for him, Deborah Johnson said.

Now, he’s staying with a relative and will be moving into an assisted-living apartment, his daughter said.

“I was just so happy he was OK,” Deborah Johnson said.