Peggy Ann Cottrell
- Missing Since 05/26/2001
- Missing From Marshalltown, Iowa
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Sex Female
- Race White
- Date of Birth 10/26/1934 (87)
- Age 66 years old
- Height and Weight 5'6 - 5'7, 167 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A white sweater with a pink and blue design, and dark-colored slacks.
- Medical Conditions Cottrell is in need of medication for unspecified reasons. She received her last dose at noon on the day of her disappearance. If she does not take her medicine as directed, she may become depressed or confused.
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Graying black hair, brown eyes. Cottrell's ears are pierced. She wears eyeglasses. She may use the last names Dickenson and/or Rowan.
Details of Disappearance
“We talked with the family members at the time and they said she was in a good mood,” Police Chief Jack McAllister said in a 2008 story about the case.
A fisherman discovered Cottrell’s purse along the banks of the Iowa River several weeks after she was reported missing. Her ID and cash were inside the handbag.

Peggy Cottrell (Courtesy Iowa Department of Public Safety)
“We worked a lot on that and we could never know exactly what happened to her,” McAllister told the Times-Republican in an October 2011 interview. “To this day we don’t know where she went.”
Cottrell is in need of medication for unspecified reasons. She received her last dose at noon on the day of her disappearance. If she does not take her medicine as directed, she may become depressed or confused.
Cottrell’s ears are pierced and she wears eyeglasses. She may use the last name Dickenson and/or Rowan.
Her case remains unsolved.

Peggy Cottrell
Peggy Cottrell, 66, disappeared from the Southridge Nursing Home in Marshalltown, Iowa, May 26, 2001, shortly after a relative dropped her off at the facility.