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Larry Leroy Nelson ? December 24, 1957 ? Age 3 ? Missing ? Calgary

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Desespere:
This little boy went missing on Christmas Eve. His age, gender and the date all match for an occult ritual.

Larry Leroy Nelson ? December 24, 1957 ? Age 3 ? Missing ? Calgary

Date Of Birth: November 11, 1954
Age at Time of Disappearance: 3 years old
Distinguishing Characteristics: White male.
Hair:Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Marks, Scars: The tip of his middle finger on the left hand is missing.

Circumstances of Disappearance
Larry Nelson went missing on December 24, 1957 in Calgary Alberta, Canada. It was assumed that he fell through the ice in the Bow River that day while playing on the ice with other children. Larry was deathly scared of water, so it was hard for his family to believe that he would even go near the river.

Larry?s mother Madeline was forced to go to work that day and Larry was left in the care of a babysitter. His normal babysitter, who lived right next to them in the Iglewood Auto Court, was unable to care for him that day, so she referred Madeline to her sister-in-law. When Madeline came home her son was gone.

The Calgary City Police dragged the river in hopes to find the body, but it was never recovered. The Bow River is a fast moving river and if the body did get tangled up it would eventually work its way free. The police dismissed the case as a drowning, but a Death Certificate was never issued.

Larry's father, Edward Sawchuk, attempted to kidnap the boy once prior to the boys disappearance. Edward committed suicide on June 24, 1975 in the Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Larry has never been found.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
mailto:kandy@sk.sympatico.ca Family Email
http://z13.invisionfree.com/PorchlightCanada/index.php?showtopic=9

Chris:
That one seems weird. In winter the river does not move that fast. You'd also think the body would have turned up.

BCID:
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.canada.alberta.calgarycity/227/mb.ashx


Larry Leroy Nelson, possibly Sawchuk

Posted: 12 Nov 2000 12:00PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Nelson, Sawchuk

I'am DESPARATELY SEEKING a man by the name of Larry Leroy Nelson. He could possibly be Sawchuk as his biological fathers name was Edward Sawchuk. He was born on November 11, 1954 in the city of North Battleford, Saskatchewan to Madeline Nelson..now Flavel and to Edward. His mother and father were never married but were engaged at the time of his birth. Madeline fell in love with another man shortly after Larry's birth and Larry's father was devastated.

Edward consistently harrassed Madeline for custody of his son and each time she would refuse. Finally in a desparate attempt to get his son, he tried to kidnap little Larry from Madeline's back yard of her home, but his attempt failed as a neighbor saw him right away and called Madeline.

Madeline knew right then and there that things would not work out living in the same city, so her and her new boyfriend decided to move to the city of Calgary to get away from this man. Just before they moved, Edward showed up at Madeline's door and told her that one way or the other he was going to get his son.

Madeline, little Larry and Madeline's boyfriend moved to an area of Calgary called the Inglewood auto court right next to the Bow River. Things seemed to go quite well there until her boyfriend fell extremely ill with polio and became paralyzed. He could no longer care financially or physically for Madeline and her baby boy....this forced Madeline to take a job at the Modern Cafe in Calgary. This also meant that little Larry needed the care of a babysitter while his mother was at work..

Shortly after Madeline started work at the Cafe, she saw Edward walking down the street and panic set in. The on consolation she had was that he did not know where in the city they lived.

The babysitters that Madeline arranged for little Larry to go to lived right next door to them..Their names were Don and Jackie and they had three children of their own. They were a nice couple according to Madeline and she trusted them whole heartedly. At one point Madeline was told that there had been a strange man hanging around the playground there. Madeline immediately thought about Edward, but then as time went on, the thought faded.

On December 24,1957 Madeline was called to go to work that day. The regular babysitters could not babysit that day, but Jackie recommended her sister-in-law to Madeline and assured her that she was a good babysitter, and so Madeline wouldn't be stuck without one. This was the beginning of a never ending story, one that Madeline will never forget as long as she lives..

She was called home, to find that her baby boy went missing that day. It was said that the boy was down on the river with some other kids and that he fell through a hole in the ice. Problem was that little Larry was deathly scared of water and that Madeline even had a heck of a time getting this boy to have a bath. Some of the other children said that there was a strange man down by the river that day...

So the Calgary City Police dragged the river and they came up with nothing. The strange thing was, a year later, a boy of around the same age drowned in the same river and within a short time afterwards his body was recovered...but not Larry's..Why?

It has been 43 years now since he went missing. No body has ever been recovered. Larry Nelson just vanished without a trace. No death certificate has ever been issued, no records of any John Doe boy's of that age has ever been reported in the province of Alberta, there has just been nothing all together.

Larry would be 46 years old now. His mother firmly believes that he is still alive, but if she finds out otherwise, then she can put her mind at ease. She has never been able to have a funeral for her boy, she has never been able to tell anyone for sure what happened to her son, and she would really like to know one way or the other what happened. Her health is not all that great and she would like to know the truth about her son.
Larry had blonde hair, blue eyes and the tip of the middle finger on his left hand was missing.

If anyone has any information on this person, the babysitters or their children, or to what happened that dreadful day, please contact me A.S.A.P. at kandy@sk.sympatico.ca it is very important that I find out what happened. Thank you for taking the time to read my story and I do hope that someone out there knows the truth.



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DESPARATELY SEARCHING FOR: LARRY LEROY NELSON, BORN: NOVEMBER 11/ 1954

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Posted by Kerry Wilson on December 04, 19101 at 23:49:47:

I am conducting a search for my Aunt Madeline Flavel (nee:Nelson). Her son went missing on December 24th/ 1957 from the Englewood Auto Court in the City of Calgary, Alberta. He was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan at the Notre Damme Union Hospital(now called The Battlefords Union Hospital). Larry had blonde hair, blue eyes and had the tip of his middle finger on his left hand missing.
Larry has been sadly missed by all his family. His mother would either like to find him or what happened to him on that fateful day. She has lived for over 40 years wondering what happened to her son.

If anyone has any information of his whereabouts, or what happened to him on that day....PLEASE, PLEASE Contact me as soon as possible.
Thank you



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Larry Leroy Nelson (possibly Sawchuk)
 
Larry Leroy Nelson was born on November 11, 1954 in the City of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. His birth mothers name is Madeline Nelson and his biological fathers name was Edward Sawchuk> Larry, his mother and his mothers boyfriend moved to Calgary Alberta Canada where they resided in the Inglewood Auto Court until the disappearance of Little Larry. Larry disapppeared on December 24,1957 and it was said that he drowned in the Bow River in Calgary but fowl play was suspected..Larry had blonde hair, blue eyes and he was missing the tip of the middle finger on his left hand. If anyone knows the whereabouts he is or what happened to him on that day....PLEASE CONTACT ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE...

City: Glaslyn,Saskatchewan. Canada
Email: kandy@sk.sympatico.ca
Entry #14217 added on October 27, 2000



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looking for boy born 11-11-1954

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Originally Posted By Debi

I am working with a family to find out what happened to there son Larry Nelson
He dissapeard in dec 24th-1957
while his mom was at work and Larry was at the babysitters
The babysitter said he drowned in the river
but when it was checked no body was ever found
given name at birth
Larry Leroy Nelson was born on November 11-1954 in the city of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. He was born to Madeline Nelson in the Notre Damme Hospital, now called the Battlefords Union Hospital.
you can find out more here http://home.talkcity.com/InspirationAv/drc...uctedchild.html
Thank you

BCID:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/...9902/story.html

Mom endured 50 years of grief after losing tot to Bow River

Losing a child can profoundly alter one's life: experts

By Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
August 17, 2009 7:16 AM

CALGARY - As a young boy, Larry Leroy Nelson was afraid of the water. The three-year-old hated bath time and fought it like a cat. At the beach, he was too scared to dip his tiny toes in the lake.

When he disappeared in front of two helpless playmates -- the sole witnesses saw his small red snowsuit bobbing along in the Bow River as he was swept away --and was presumed drowned on Dec. 23, 1957, Larry's family was grief-stricken.

His mother, Madelien Flavel, went to her grave two years ago at age 70 still questioning her son's fate five decades after losing him.

His body was never found. No death certificate was ever issued. The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy's disappearance became a lifelong obsession for his mother.

In death, she passed down her quest for answers to relatives.

Now, another generation has inherited the same tragic curiosity about that afternoon two days before Christmas more than 50 years ago.

"It destroyed her. She never, ever did get over it. She could never put this to rest. We don't know if he's alive or dead. You can't bury someone who's not dead. He's out there in one way or another," her brother, Dennis Nelson, said in an interview.

All these years later, the family's loss -- a tragedy that has now touched two generations of the family--seems sadly too familiar.

Recently, three families in the Calgary region have lost children to horrific accidents, the most startling being three-year-old Michelle Krsek killed Aug. 1 after being struck by a bundle of sheet metal that plunged from a construction site in high winds.

The grief that follows the loss of a child is powerful enough to alter the course of our lives, according to bereavement experts.

"Although we expect to bury and grieve loved ones in our lives, we never anticipate that our children should die before us. The death of a child brings both the loss of a past and a future," said Nancy Moules, associate professor at the University of Calgary's faculty of nursing.

"We expect to bury our parents, not our children. The unspeakable nature of children dying shrouds the experience of childhood death."

Through years of research, Moules says she's learned that parents tend to identify themselves by being parents, not as individuals. Coupled with issues of guilt, it compounds their heartache.

"Once a parent, one is always a parent, whether the child is physically present or not," she says. "Their identity was so tied to the person they lost, they don't know who they are. Without that person, how do you find yourself?

"We are burdened with the idea that there is a right way to 'do' grief, that this right way is measured by the absence of grief feelings, and that ultimately, to stray from these prescribed trajectories implants a stamp of failure, if not pathology, that takes shape in lives and relationships."

The Calgary-area families reeling from the recent loss of their children in separate accidents have a long road ahead of them, says Moules.

"In grief, in the beginning they have everybody rallying around, with casseroles and just being there. In time, people's lives move on and they almost don't want to be burdened with it: 'I don't want to think about this because it could be my child.' Lots of people pull away because it's too hard to deal with," she said. "People do feel abandoned socially. I think that happens a lot, to know they have to have a social facade, pretend they're OK.

"At the time of loss, we typically say, if there's anything I can do, just ask. But they don't know what they need. And if they did, they don't know how to ask. They don't have the strength inside."

Moules offers advice when dealing with parents who have lost children.

"Just be there. Follow their lead, ask questions and don't be afraid. If they don't want to talk, they won't."

In Larry Nelson's case, the tot's family weren't the only ones traumatized the day he was swallowed by the river in 1957.

His babysitter carried the horrible memory to her deathbed last year.

"She was dying from cancer last year and she brought that up. She said the worst thing that ever happened was that little boy drowning," said the woman's son, Lance Griffin. "It stuck with her whole life."

Lance was with Larry the day he disappeared. Lance was 11/2, his brother Dale not yet five.

The brothers were the last to see the boy alive.

The incident scarred Dale's mind, too. "Now and again, whenever I go to Calgary and across the Cushing Bridge, I always think about him and the event," said Dale.

"I don't remember him falling, but I saw him floating, seeing him in the water," Dale said. "It was a vivid image, him floating away in that red snowsuit."

Larry's family was never able to lay the little boy's body to rest --something that has always bothered them. Grief experts say that's not unusual.

The fact that the family has carried their grief over decades is no surprise.

"Haunting is the right word. It's incredible, the power of grief. You've got to find a way to manage it or it will pull you under," said Brian Pickering, a counsellor with Alberta Health Services' grief support program.

The family's quest for closure has recently been reignited by Kerry McCullough, who married into the family.

"She (Larry's mother) always had a picture of him hanging in her house downstairs in the rumpus room in a mahoganycoloured wood frame. That was the only thing she had left," said McCullough. "She always said, 'I know he didn't drown that day.' You learn to deal with it, but you never forget. She'd get quite teary."

McCullough has taken her search to the Internet, where she has posted the family mystery on The Doe Network, and other sites serving missing persons cases.

Days ago, Larry's family talked with the Griffins to learn the story of Larry's last day first-hand.

The answers were a welcome relief, but after decades of skepticism, some mystery remains.

"Honestly, I still have doubts," said a grateful McCullough.

"I do think that it is a good possibility that that could have happened that way. A piece of ice broke off and Larry could have fallen in. I just don't believe he waded into the water."

Never having had a body to bury also leads to suffering, said Pickering.

"They need to have some sort of a moment in time where they can at least acknowledge that person's absence. That's a big step," he said. "It's a hold that never lets go to the degree that you let it go into yourself and let it linger.

"It's different from anything else."

szickefoose@theherald.canwest.com

eyeswideopen:
this is so horrifying to lose a child and never really know what happened.  A parents worst night mare.  I do pray that is man  is alive some where and come to find how much his mother did care.

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