Veronica Mars would be able to solve this during recess. RL is too slow!
Anybody want to bet the daughter doesn’t live at the mailed address any longer?
Cool. A new mystery, the current whereabouts of the niece.
/hijack
I didn’t realise this was a zombie resurrection/update and I saw A R Cane had posted and…
…now I’m sad.
Me, too. Any news?
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.
I have an automatic notification registered if and when his name shows up in the Social Security Death Index.
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!!
****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
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?
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.)
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.
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.
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.
Best response now is on the ancestry.com website. Reposting link.
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!
Whats going on with this story? Any updates yet?
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.
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.
Thanks. This is one of my favorite SDMB threads, and I’m always eager to learn more.
Don Ivens was my uncle too. My mother was his sister. I have been doing a family search on 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…