Missing from: Sumter, South Carolina
Missing From: February 9, 2017
Age at disappearance: 80
Height: 5’4″
Weight: 140
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Grey
Distinguishing Characteristics: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Caucasian female. Nave is deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She was otherwise in very good physical and mental condition for her age at the time of her disappearance.
Details of Disappearance: Barbara was last seen in Sumter, South Carolina on February 8, 2017. Her son heard from her on February 9, and on that same day she also emailed a friend and spoke to a contractor. She has never been heard from again.
Her friends realized there was something wrong when one of them went to her house on Tondaleia Drive off U.S. 521 and found the front door open and Nave’s purse lying inside. Her money and credit cards were still inside the purse and nothing appeared to be disturbed, but there was no sign of Nave.
Her loved ones stated she would have never left her purse at home unless she was only going for a walk, and she normally took her cherished Lhasa Apso dogs with her, but the dogs were left behind, without any food or water. Two of them were inside her house; her third dog, which had been sick, was dead.
Nave’s vehicle was in her driveway, with the windows rolled halfway down. There were no tire tracks on the dirt road leading up to her house, suggesting her car hadn’t been moved in a couple of days at least. Her passport was inside the house.
Investigative Agency: Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, (803)436-2000
If you have any information on this case, please contact CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131 or call the CUE Center 24-hour tip line at (910) 232-1687. All information submitted to CUE Center for Missing Persons is confidential.