Post by Scumhunter on Mar 24, 2016 11:39:49 GMT -5
From The Virginian Pilot website (pilotonline.com):
All of it's waiting for him.
The black Ford F150 sitting in front of his Ocean View house. The surfboard leaning against a living room chair. The shirt, shoes and socks, neatly folded in the chair's seat. The dozen newspapers wrapped in plastic, stacked beside the fireplace.
And his wife, wondering if she'll ever fetch the Sunday edition so he can make a copy of the word puzzles and compete against her to see who can finish them first.
All of it waiting.
Harold "J.R" Molohon disappeared Aug. 3 after dropping off his wife for work as the nursing director at Lydia Roper Home. He was scheduled to go to a doctor's appointment, but as his wife, Julie Ann, would learn later, he didn't show.
She ended up getting off work early and hitched a ride with a co-worker. She didn't think much of it when her husband wasn't at the house. But by 8, she started to panic when she hadn't seen or heard from her husband, something that was out of character.
"I just knew something was wrong," she said. "He vanished into thin air."
Police found his pickup two days later in Corolla, N.C. His surfboard was in the back of the truck. So were his shirt, shoes and socks.
Molohon used to be an avid surfer but hasn't hit the waves in five to seven years, and not since he met Julie Ann in 2010.
There have been no signs since, and Julie Ann Molohon is starting to think: Her husband of two years is probably dead, drowned in the Atlantic.
She celebrated his 63rd birthday on Thursday anyway. Normally the two of them do it alone. She gets a cake with his name on it, they go out to dinner, she hangs up birthday decorations that poke fun at the fact that he's older than she. One read, "Caution! Old person!"
"He loved it," she said, laughing, adding that even though Thursday wasn't for her husband, it was about him.
"He's still here with me whether he succumbed to the ocean or not. I had to celebrate his birthday. It's celebrating him, and that's what I'll do for the rest of my life."
Molohon said she hasn't given up all hope, but realizes finding her husband alive is unlikely. She still wakes up hoping it will all be some horrible nightmare, still hollers upstairs for him every morning knowing he won't respond, still goes up there knowing he's not, but hoping all the same.
As the days have gone by and hope diminished, she's thought maybe he dove into the water, hit his head, got amnesia and is out on an island, atop a wild horse with a volleyball riding with him on the back, kind of like Tom Hanks' marooned character in "Cast Away."
But then, she said, she realizes that's silly.
"We are not giving up," she said, "but reality is reality."
If J.R. did die, she has one request for the sea: that it give her husband's body back. Julie Ann said she plans to return it - J.R. wanted to have his ashes scattered at sea - but she wants to honor him first, for the firefighter who served Norfolk for nearly three full decades and the man she loved. She also wants his family to have closure.
She's waiting.
pilotonline.com/news/norfolk-woman-has-faint-hope-missing-husband-s-alive/article_7a79c929-0746-58cf-9b0f-fb36999d596a.html
Thoughts? As far as I know, J.R. is still missing. And with the passage of time, it's looking more and more likely that unfortunately he is deceased. But I hope even if that's the case, his body will show up somewhere, wash ashore, however it may happen, because his wife and family still deserve to give him a proper burial.
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