Viola Findley
Viola Marie Findley
NamUS MP # 2914
Age at Report: 29
Date of Birth: December 17, 1954
Height: 5′ 04″ – 5′ 05″
Weight: 175 to 200 lbs.
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Race: Caucasian
Missing From: Waterloo, IA (Black Hawk County)
Date Missing: September 1, 1983
Viola Marie Findley, accompanied by a friend, left Waterloo, Iowa, in the summer of 1983 to pay a visit to Ms. Findley’s family in Florida. Findley’s three children remained in Iowa, and on September 1, 1983, Findley left her mother’s home in Daytona Beach to head back to Waterloo.
Black Hawk County in Iowa
Ten days later, when Findley still hadn’t arrived in Iowa, family members in Florida were notified. Findley’s mother contacted Daytona Beach authorities to report her missing daughter.
Viola Findley was never seen again.
Twelve years after her disappearance, her mother had a Presumptive Death certificate issued. The police closed her file and put it into storage, where it eventually was destroyed by a flood in the records room.
According to a sibling, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in Bunnell, Florida was looking into a Jane Doe found there in 1993. The sibling reported to NamUS that Cpl. Kim Davis — who’d told the family what happened to the missing records — was looking into the possibility that Jane Doe might be Viola Marie Findley.
NamUS collected DNA from Findley’s son and daughter as well as Findley’s sibling, and at last report a DNA profile was being done on Jane Doe to see if a match could be made. The family is awaiting test results at this time, but the sibling says they are still unsure what states should be checked for unidentified remains because no one knows the location between Florida and Iowa where Viola disappeared.
Viola Findley had brown shoulder-length hair, brown eyes, a bad nail on her pointer finger and a broken front tooth. She went by the nickname “Vi.”
If you have any information regarding the unexplained disappearance of Viola Findley, please contact her NamUS Case Manager, Anthony Falsetti, at (352) 246-2211, or e-mail namus.05@findthemissing.org, or contact the NamUS Regional Administrator, Rose Sacchetti, at (727) 549-6067 ext. 130 or e-mailnamus.14@findthemissing.org.
I hope for the sake of her children and the rest of her family that the DNA is a match. Must be so horriable for them not to know what has happened to their mother/family member.
I just found out the DNA results that my niece,nephew and myself submitted are now complete and entered in CODIS hoping that somewhere some day we will find my sister…
That is good news!! Hopefully you’ll learn soon if this is your sister or not!
We are still waiting on the DNA but we hope that one day the people she came down here with say someting to someone as to what happened to her. Since my sister disapeared Her middle daughter vicky was killed in a car accident she was 15 she lost her mom when she was 3. It is my hope that my sister was there to greet her and vicky now knows her mom didn’t leave because she wanted to. Our brother and mother have passed since that time but my sister lives on through her Son and Daughter and her four grandchildren.
Thank you
Betti
I was just wondering who Violas friend was that accompanied her on the trip to see her mother in Florida?? Did this friend ride back with her enroute to Waterloo, Iowa.?? Who drove Viola or her friend???
Wonder if Viola may have stopped somewhere enroute to Waterloo & if anyone seen her….She could have met with foul play on her way back to Waterloo, because I’m assuming she made stops along the way……but you don’t know..
I hope that this will be resolved someday and her family and friends will be able to find closure…………………………..