NC NC - Lillian LaWren Nance, 32, Gastonia, 20 June 2001

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Fifteen years have passed since any of Lillian Lawren Nance’s loved ones have seen her, but that doesn’t dampen her mother’s confidence that somewhere, somehow she’s still alive.

Nance was 32 when she went missing June 20, 2001. She was last seen leaving her mother’s old residence on the 1200 block of Sunshine Street in Gastonia.

Everlene Nance’s hunt for her daughter has taken her across the city and as far south as Georgia. Four presidential elections and a decade and a half later, there are still few answers to the woman’s disappearance.

Markeveus accepts that his mother wasn’t a perfect person. He lived with his grandmother. His mom had problems with the law, once spending nearly three years in prison for child abuse, drug possession and assault inflicting serious injury.

Still, Markeveus says his mother tried her best as a single parent, and one of her requests helped drive him. Even after transferring from Hunter Huss High School and taking up football, he just didn’t want to go to class some days.

Markeveus finished high school in part because it’s what his mother wanted. He’s since had three children.

Lillian Nance’s missing person poster describes the woman as a black female 5-foot-4 inches tall, 130 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. It also lists an 8-inch scar extending from her left shoulder blade to her left arm, marks her family says are the fault of an abusive boyfriend.

Everlene didn’t trust him, and when Lillian went missing she wondered if he could be at fault.

Though Lillian Nance’s mother and sister, Carolyn, insist they believe Lillian Nance is alive, she’s legally been deemed dead.

http://www.gastongazette.com/news/20161126/fifteen-years-few-answers

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/145

http://charleyproject.org/case/lillian-lawren-nance

 

[Pennysmom1]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Lillian LaWren Nance, Female, Black / African American
Date of Last Contact June 20, 2001
Missing From Gastonia, North Carolina
Missing Age 32 Years
Current Age 50 Years
Height 5' 3" (63 Inches)
Weight 130 lbs
Race / EthnicityBlack / African American

• Circumstances of DisappearanceUnknown. Lillian was last seen in the late afternoon walking away from a family member's residence in the vicinity of the 1200 block of Sunshine St. in Gastonia, NC.

Physical Description
Hair Color Black
Head Hair Description Black
Left Eye Color Brown
Right Eye Color Brown
Eye Description Brown
Distinctive Physical Features
Scar approximately 8"-10" long extending from left shoulder blade to left arm, small scar above right eyebrow, small scars on both hands and legs

Clothing and Accessories
Dark blue denim shorts, floral spaghetti strap shirt.

 

[Murkywaters]

Lillian LaWren Nance – The Charley Project

Details of Disappearance
Nance's family members last saw her in the late afternoon on June 20, 2001, walking away from her mother's former residence in the vicinity of the 1200 block of Sunshine Street in Gastonia, North Carolina. She left with a male friend, saying she was either going to the store or going home. She never arrived home and never contacted her family again, although she was sighted in Gastonia on July 2.

Nance lived with a friend on Avon Street at the time of her disappearance. Her mother stated she rarely left her hometown and had no reason to walk out of her life. Her family reported her missing in August.

About a year after Nance went missing, her mother heard she had been sighted in Atlanta, Georgia. Nance's mother traveled to Atlanta seven times to look for her daughter. People there said they had seen her and that she was going by her nickname, Libby, but the sightings were never verified and Nance was never located.

Foul play is suspected in Nance's case; police believe she was murdered. A possible suspect is the man she was dating at the time of her disappearance; her family stated he regularly beat her. He still lives in the Gastonia area and hasn't been publicly identified.

Nance was declared legally dead in 2014; her family had this done so they could collect her life insurance. Her disappearance remains unsolved.

 

[PastTense]

"Time has not brought optimism to Markeveus Nance.

Thursday marks 18 years since his mother, Lillian Nance, walked away from her grandmother’s home on Sunshine Street. She was with a male friend and headed home that June day in 2001, they thought. Nobody in Nance’s family has heard from her since. Police say she was last seen on July 2, 2001.

Markeveus, an only child who was 16 at the time, has held out hope for years his mom would one day make a safe return. Those hopes dim as more time passes without an answer. “You still try to think positive about the situation, but you got to face reality,” Nance said. “It’s been so long. Something happened.”"
Gastonia mom went missing 18 years ago, son searches for answers

"Her mother, Everlene Nance, said there was hope initially. Police had leads, with information about an abusive boyfriend and other clues. But soon, authorities realized they needed more help...

It’s been unbearable, really,” she said. “It’s been horrible. Like a nightmare that won’t go away.”"
Mother fights for answers 18 years after daughter's disappearance

 

[JerseyGirl]

Gastonia family has looked for missing loved one 20 years

 

[Pennysmom1]

Lillian is still missing

Missing Person / NamUs #MP145

View NamUs missing person case MP145 for Lillian LaWren Nance missing from Gastonia, North Carolina. Date of last contact: Jun 20, 2001. NCMEC case number: --.

namus.nij.ojp.gov

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=4944DFNC

Distinguishing Marks/Features: Scar approximately 8"-10" long extending from left shoulder blade to left arm; small scar above right eyebrow; small scars on both hands and legs.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown




March 17, 2023

Lillian Nance, 32: Family Believes Boyfriend Knows What Happened

Lillian Nance was last seen at her mother's home In June 2001. She said she was making a quick trip to the store but never returned.

ourblackgirls.com

 

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