On the morning of February 23, 1946, 24-year-old schoolteacher Lola Ada Celli left her parents’ home in Grandview Heights, Ohio, planning to take a bus to Columbus for a shopping trip and was last seen walking to the nearby bus stop. She wore a gray Indian lamb fur coat, a gray hat, and an aqua-colored dress with red trim. Her family reported her missing the following day after she failed to return that afternoon.

Born in a village in southern Italy and raised in the United States from age nine, Lola was an Ohio State University graduate, an honors student, active in the Spanish and French clubs and the Education Council, and fluent in five languages. At the time she taught in West Mansfield and was described as healthy, single, and not a user of alcohol or tobacco.

Investigators received an unconfirmed witness report of a woman arguing with a man in a car on Olentangy River Road the day she disappeared. Authorities once considered an amnesiac episode; in 1956 the Grandview Heights chief of police declared the case closed and claimed to know her whereabouts, a conclusion her family rejected. The Grandview Heights Division of Police still lists the case as open.

If anyone saw Lola around Grandview Heights or Columbus on February 23, 1946, please come forward with what you remember.