Kalona business owner missing

The search continues for missing Kalona business owner, Sharon Ruth Hopf, 45, who was reported missing when she failed to report for work Thursday morning.

According to Washington County Sheriff Jerry Dunbar, Hopf was last seen at 7 a.m. Thursday when she left her home at 2886 280th Street, rural Crawfordsville.  A report that she was seen at a BP gas station in Washington at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, January 5, could not be verified,

Sharon Hopf

said Dunbar.

Hopf was reported driving a 1999 white Chevy Lumina with an Iowa plate, 419WXF.

Dunbar said that law enforcement and other units searched the surrounding areas for the car and for Hopf, finding no trace of either.

Her husband reported her as missing.  The Hopfs are the owners of Hopf Home Furnishing advertised as Furniture, Floors and More at 101 B Avenue (corner of B Avenue and Highway 1), Kalona.

Anyone with any possible information regarding Hopf’s whereabouts is asked to the call the sheriff’s department at 319-653-2107.