# Lost Wallet--Part Deux **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306 "2008-03-06T08:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/61 "2009-05-31T07:46:08Z")
Veronica Mars would be able to solve this during recess. RL is too slow! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/62 "2009-05-31T11:26:31Z")
Anybody want to bet the daughter doesn’t live at the mailed address any longer? ---
**Author:** ![Lungfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@Lungfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lungfish)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/63 "2009-05-31T13:26:30Z")
Cool. A new mystery, the current whereabouts of the niece. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/64 "2009-06-01T05:36:48Z")
/hijack I didn’t realise this was a zombie resurrection/update and I saw **A R Cane** had posted and… …now I’m sad. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/65 "2009-07-01T14:10:32Z")
Me, too. Any news? ---
**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/66 "2009-07-01T17:10:46Z")
Package wasn’t returned to me, I’m assuming the niece got it and just didn’t respond. Whatever. As for the guy moving to Canada, niece was fairly sure he was in CA as he apparently always loved it out here, but my understanding is he has serious drinking problems. Not sure we’ll move past this point of the “investigation” without the niece telling us her uncle’s been found. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/67 "2009-07-01T17:22:24Z")
I have an automatic notification registered if and when his name shows up in the Social Security Death Index. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/68 "2009-07-01T19:25:10Z")
This has been an absolutely fascinating story to read. I hope we hear more so there is total closure on this mystery. The tenacious searching for two years is admirable!! ---
**Author:** ![destuni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@destuni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/destuni)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/69 "2009-07-08T20:41:56Z")
\*\*\*\*I am Evelyn Ivens daughter! I would love to hear from the Ivens family! Yes, my mom died and so did my brother. I live in Oregon now. I have been trying to find my Dad(Don) for years. He was a life member of the American Legion and the V.F.W. and I have checked with both. I know my Uncle carl had a shop where they fixed wrecked vehicles. My Grandma Brown was my favorite person on the planet! Aunt Lucille ran a close second. Yes, Mom and Dad both had a drinking problem. Dad played pool a lot and was in tournaments. He ran a truck and trailor rental lot ( Central Rentals ) at Washington and Alameda in L.A. Please someone contact me. Tuni ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/70 "2009-10-27T06:30:46Z")
Bumping this thread to see if the previous message was ever followed up on, or fell off without anyone noticing or what. Is there a new thread? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/71 "2009-10-30T04:55:37Z")
And allow me to belatedly say, “Welcome to the SDMB, **destuni**.” Let me think on this awhile and apply my pretty good Google-fu to the problem. Perhaps there’s something we haven’t thought of. (I was away from the Boards at the time you posted.) ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/72 "2009-10-30T05:00:25Z")
Hey, I just had a thought… was he seen by anyone **after** the time the wall containing the wallet was built? Because, maybe he put the wallet into the wall and then took on another identity entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/73 "2009-10-30T05:45:15Z")
No, Ivens’s stepdaughter said in the link in message #55 above that she last saw him about 1990, and the wallet was lost in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/74 "2009-10-30T14:52:49Z")
I keep coming back to these threads, hoping for a definitive answer. I have to say, in all candor, that if so many smart, highly motivated people checking so many possible leads haven’t been able to find him, I suspect Mr. Ivens has passed on, perhaps (likely?) under circumstances rendering him anonymous. But no one would be happier than me to learn that he’s alive and well and living… wherever. ---
**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/75 "2009-11-07T18:43:10Z")
Best response now is on the [ancestry.com](http://ancestry.com) website. Reposting link. [http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.ivens/125/mb.ashx](http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.ivens/125/mb.ashx) We got some family members together through this process, but last I heard D. E. Ivens is still missing. Doubt he died, as he was in military and I assume that means his prints are on record? Family thinks he may be in VA Hospital. The hunt continues. At least the wallet is back with family now! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Lahey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@Mr.Lahey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Lahey)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/76 "2009-12-09T07:36:46Z")
Whats going on with this story? Any updates yet? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/77 "2009-12-09T11:54:23Z")
If Donald Eugene Ivens lived to be 65 years old (in 1996), there is a 95 percent chance the Social Security Death Index will eventually record his death. He does not appear in the Index as of October 2009. ---
**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/78 "2009-12-09T18:35:44Z")
I’m hands off at this point. Got wallet to family members, several “long lost” family members have connected with each other over this, and they continue their search. Not sure I’ll hear anything if they find him, but if I do I’ll definitely post it here. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/79 "2009-12-09T18:40:21Z")
Thanks. This is one of my favorite SDMB threads, and I’m always eager to learn more. ---
**Author:** ![Ivens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@Ivens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivens)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306/80 "2012-04-07T03:16:59Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Just to help confirm that this has to be the guy, I can find a newspaper story from the _New Castle Times¶_ dated 22 January 1963 which was talking about the death, in California, of an elderly former resident of New Castle. > > The deceased was a Mrs. James A.(Anna) Plum. Her two daughters were listed as > Thelma Lesher and Evelyn Ivens of 2710 E. 112th St. , Lynwood(CA.). That matches our Evelyn. > > The LA Times has no obituary for Evelyn Ivens. Don Ivens was my uncle too. My mother was his sister. I have been doing a family search on [ancestry.com](http://ancestry.com) and was sent this thread by a cousin. I love that there was a group of people trying to return an old wallet; an empty old wallet. It’s amazing. (I had one of those old metal SS cards too.) I’m still searching… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-wallet-part-deux/440306.md?page=5)