After brief morning showers on Saturday June 5, 2004, the skies over Davis County, Iowa, cleared. It seemed to 81-year-old Ottumwa resident Clarence Leroy Cecil like a good day for fishing.

Clarence Cecil

His car and his fishing gear were later found beside a cabin he owned, but Clarence was never seen again.

When he disappeared, he wore a blue short-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and a silver watch. Clarence had white hair, stood 5-feet-10, weighed 170 pounds, and wore eyeglasses.

Clarence Leroy Cecil was born July 23, 1922 to Nellie E. Marshall and Charles L. Cecil. On November 25, 1961, he married Neva Jean Hannon in Kirksville, Missouri, and she preceded him in death in 1995. Cecil was a Navy Veteran of WWII.

If you have any information on Clarence Cecil, please contact the Davis County Sheriff’s Office at 641-664-2385.