A search was underway Monday along the Sumner County – Grant County, Okla. border for an elderly Winfield man who disappeared over the weekend.
Jack Lee Howe, 87, who lives alone on 81st road south of Winfield, was last seen about noon Friday by a neighbor, said Capt. Bill Mueller of the Cowley County Sheriff’s Office.
"The neighbor realized on Friday she hadn’t seen him around all day. On Sunday, when she still didn’t see him around she called and reported it," he said.
Howe’s 1999 dark blue Ford Ranger Pickup with a light colored topper was found Sunday south of Caldwell in Grant County, Okla., just south of the Kansas-Oklahoma border, east of U.S. 81 on the railroad right-of-way.
"Nobody was in it or around it," Mueller said. "The Grant County sheriff has started a search on the Oklahoma side of the line and the Sumner County sheriff is conducting a search on the Kansas side of the line in that area."
Howe is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. He has gray hair and brown eyes and frequently wears glasses. He was last seen wearing light-colored blue jeans, light-colored suspenders and a red long sleeve flannel type shirt.
"We don’t know exactly when he may have left," Mueller said.
Anyone who may have seen Howe or his pickup after noon on Friday is asked to call police or sheriff.
