Missing
Lillian Eileen DeMaris
DeMaris, approximately 1952
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/14/1952
Missing location (approx) :
Mason City, Iowa
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 05/12/1921 (100)
Age at the time of disappearance: 31 years old
Height / Weight : 5'2, 120 pounds
Medical conditions : DeMaris is classified as disabled for unspecified reasons.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, hazel eyes. DeMaris goes by her middle name, Eileen. Her maiden name is Huff and her previous married names were O'Brien and Jackson.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : DeMaris was last seen in Mason City, Iowa on August 14, 1952. At the time of her disappearance, she was working as a food vendor for a traveling carnival. That day, DeMaris told her oldest daughter they would go out to dinner to celebrate the child's birthday. She has never been heard from again and her vehicle was found abandoned outside the carnival where she worked.
DeMaris is one of ten children. She was born in Nebraska, moved to Iowa as a child, and lived in Killeen, Texas for a time in the 1950s. She was widowed prior to her disappearance and left behind three young daughters. She was not reported missing immediately because her family was afraid the children would be taken from them.
She has been declared legally dead, but her children still hope to discover her fate. Few details are available in her case.
Other information and links : ncy
Mason City Police Department
641-421-3636
September 2021 updates and sources
Iowa Missing Person Information Clearinghouse
Iowa Cold Cases
Websleuths
October 12, 2004. July 1, 2015; Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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