Missing
Veda Lou Powers
Powers, approximately 1982
Date and time person was reported missing : 05/26/1982
Missing location (approx) :
Nashville, Tennessee
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
Black
DOB : 05/01/1953 (68)
Age at the time of disappearance: 29 years old
Height / Weight : 5'4, 110 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Powers wears eyeglasses and she cannot see without them. They were left behind.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Powers was last seen in Nashville, Tennessee on May 26, 1982. That morning, as per her usual routine, she left her residence in the 900 block of 9th Avenue south, dropped her children off at day care, picked up her sister at Buena Vista Apartments and took her to her job at the Continental Insurance Office off Murfreesboro Road.
Powers told her sister she had taken the day off from her own job at St. Thomas Hospital and was going home to bed. She has never been heard from again; her sister was last person to see her.
Two days after Powers's disappearance, her orange 1975 Chevrolet Monza was found abandoned on 14th Avenue south near Edgehill Avenue, several blocks from her home. Her eyeglasses were in the backseat.
Powers left behind two children, and she's described as a reliable employee and devoted parent who was very close to her family. Authorities believe she may have been taken against her will. Foul play is suspected in Powers's case. She was declared legally dead seven years after her disappearance, and her mother raised her children.
Other information and links : ncy
Metro Nashville Police Department
615-862-7557
615-862-7546
September 2021 updates and sources
Metro Nashville Police Department
The Tennessean
October 12, 2004. October 17, 2016; Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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