The Independent-Record from Helena, Montana • 21

fl3 WEDDINGS FEATURES A special report from the Helena Independent Record, Lee State Bureau and Lee Newspapers of Montana As years pass, families keep memories alive and hope for word that helps them learn the fates of loved ones who are among i ttEnns mam? Ludemann has worked the Missoula end of the Pentilla case since it arose, and he is deeply unset-ded by her disappearance. He has tried to remain optimistic for Harris, but the police side of him holds a darker vision. "I have to be realistic," he said. "I think there is someone out there who can tell us where to find her." Ludemann was a detective when he first got the Pentilla case. He has since moved to uniform patrol, but he took Jennifer's case with him.

"I owe that to the family and to her," he said. "Although I never met her, I think about Jennifer as a part of my extended family. This case will never go inactive as long as I'm with the department" On April 4 Jennifer's birthday -and Christmas, the Harris family runs advertisements in the Las Cruces, N.M., newspaper. Lynn has even included a poem that Jennifer once wrote. "We wish her all our best and tell her to come home," Harris said.

"I think she is out there somewhere. I think she doesn't know who she is, that whoever got her has brainwashed her or something. My mother's intuition tells me she is alive." So the presents wait. Jennifer's room is as she left it, her posters still on the wall. Harris moves on with her own life, but Jennifer is always in her thoughts.

Jennifer Pentilla could be anywhere, but she will always be safe and alive and smiling, deep her in mother's heart. AMY MARIE JOHNSON of Livingston seen: May 16, 1986, downtown Livingston. Gender: Female. Birth date: Sept. 4, 1961.

Age when disappeared: 24. Age now: 33. Contact: Livingston Police Captain Steve McCann, 222-2050. A I'. MISSING The Rev.

James Otis Anderson of Townsend Last seen: June 13, 1982, driving east of Townsend Gender: Male Birth date: March 21, 1928 Age when disappeared: 54 Age now: 66 Contact: Broadwater County Attorney John Flynn, 266-3444 a new life. "Anything was possible with Father Jim," said At V- a '--0 Here is a look at some of the people missing in Montana. If you have information that may help solve the mystery behind these disappearances, call one of the contact numbers listed with the story about that person. JENNIFER LYNN PENTILLA of Missoula Last seen: Oct. 17, 1991, in Deming, N.M.

Gender: Female. Birth date: April 4, 1973. Age when disappeared: 18. Age now: 21. Contact: Missoula Police Officer Marty Ludemann, 523-4777.

Three years worth of Christmas presents and a lifetime of hope wait for Jennifer Lynn Pentilla to come home to Missoula. Her mother, Lynn Harris, buys the gifts, praying against long odds that her 21-year-old daughter will one day be home to open them. "They are all ready and waiting for her," Harris said recently. "We'll have quite the party when she comes home. And she will come home.

I just know it" Jennifer Pentilla hasn't been seen or heard from since Oct. 17, 1991, the day she called her mother from a Shell gas station in Deming, N.M. She had traveled to the Southwest with hopes of cycling deep into the heart of Mexico, where she planned to help the poor. "She wasn't an ordinary girl," her mother said several months after Jennifer disappeared. "She was just so committed to helping others.

She was just going to do it." Jennifer Pentilla flew into San Diego with her mountain bike, camping equipment, two Bibles, a journal and $450. From Oct. 1 to Oct. 13, Jennifer called her mother eight times. On the 17th, she called from Deming, about 30 miles north of the Mexican border, where she had heard that a young woman bicycling alone into Mexico faced a dangerous ride.

In fact, she told her mother that she had decided to ride, instead, to Minnesota to see her best friend. In closing, Jennifer told her mother that she'd call again in a couple of days, probably from Las Cruces on Harris' birthday, the 19th. The phone call never came. By mid-November, Harris and her husband, Jim, traveled to Deming. They spent six days traveling the back roads of southern New Mexico, stopping at pawn and bicycle shops and posting flyers about Jennifer.

They came home to Missoula with nothing but hope. Nearly a year had passed when two dove hunters walking in the scrub country near Hatch, N.M., found what turned out to be Jennifer's camping equipment stacked neady under a mesquite tree. The find generated increased interest in the case, but eventually led nowhere. "It looked real promising for a short while, but it never put us close to anybody," said Marty Ludemann, a Missoula police officer. hen Amy Johnson left her Livingston apartment the By DAVID FENNER IR State Bureau In early June 1982, the Rev.

James Anderson of Townsend planted an apple tree in the backyard of the home of his good friend, Don Lewis, as a gift. Anderson was a kind man with a green thumb, Lewis said, so he didn't give the gesture much thought until a week later when the reverend vanished. "I wondered if he didn't plant that apple tree for me to remember him by," said Lewis, a Townsend businessman, in a recent interview. "Father Jim," as he was known in the community, failed to show up at St. John's Episcopal Church for Sunday services on June 13, 1982, leaving authorities, family and friends mystified.

To this day, authorities don't know whether he killed himself, met with foul play or pulled a disappearing act and sneaked off somewhere to start evening of May 16, Broadwater County Attorney John Flynn. THE PASTOR and his wife, Pat Anderson, were separated at the time. He had filed for divorce a few months earlier. Pat Anderson, a Helena-area businesswoman, believes her estranged husband was abducted and murdered, but won't rule out the possibility that he's out there somewhere, alive. "I would love to have some resolution," she said.

"I would love to know what happened, especially for my kids." They had two children together. Ian, then 1 1, is now 23. Shannon, 8 at the time, is 20. Neither wanted to be interviewed. A search of Anderson's church residence turned up no sign of foul play or any indication (More ANDERSON, page 2C) 1986, she told her roommate that she'd be back in two hours.

Johnson never returned, leaving behind a baby girl and all her belongings, including an uncashed welfare check. Authorities suspect that she was murdered. "She left basically everything at the apartment. It was not her nature to up and disappear like Johnson she did," said Livingston Police Capt. Steve McCann.

McCann said Johnson was seen with a former boyfriend the evening of her disappearance. When questioned, the ex-beau said he had dropped her off downtown that night after they had driven around awhile. A report came in that she was seen six days later in a bar at Gardiner, 50 miles to the south, but authorities were unable to confirm the sighting. Authorities have received several tips over the years that Johnson was killed and her body buried, but their digging in the purported locations has turned up nothing, McCann said. "There are people who know what happened to her, but I think they're afraid to say anything," McCann said.

More missing Montanans 2C-5C Dave Barry 6C Mark Mozer 6D "QUae dllssiipipeGiPsiijDGes Timothy Oscar Kimbrell Amy Marie Johnson Patricia Sullivan James Lee Hale The Rev. James Otis Anderson Last seen: June 13, 1982, Last seen: Jan. 10, 1992, Last seen: Nov. 25, 1992, at Butte. Of Kalispell, last seen: Nov.

29, 1 987, Last seen: May 1 6, 1 986, at San Francisco. at Livingston. at Noxon. rf I'll Jennifer Pentilla Of Missoula Last seen: Oct. 17, 1991, at Deming N.M.

driving east of Townsend. Peggy Jo DeCoteau Last seen: July 4, 1979, at Superior. Robert Peter and Terry Lynn Carney Of Glendive, last seen: Sept. 21, 1985. Megan Ginevicz Last seen: April 29, 1980, east of St.

Ignatius. Brian Carl Ankeny Last seen: Nov. 24, 1989, at Anaconda. Jody Fern Howard Curtis A. Holmen Last seen: Oct.

7, 1991, at Wolf Point. Dolly Bigheadman Collins Last seen: March 9, 1976, at Lame Deer. Last seen: July 22, 1984, at Missoula. Wayne Hickman Last seen: Oct. 1, 1985, along Highway 93, north of Missoula.

0 Rev. John Patrick Kerrigan Last seen: July 20, 1984, at Ronan. Patricia Meehan Last seen: April 20, 1 989, on Highway 200, southwest of Circle. Nyleen Kay Marshall Dorothy Keller Smith Joseph Hunyadi Robyn Ann Pettinato Nancy Lynn Kirkpatrick Last seen: April 21, 1976, Last seen: Feb. 1 5, 1 981 Last seen: July 5, 1 975, at Dayton.

at Whitefish. at Kalispell. Last seen: June 25, 1 983, Last seen: Sept. 23, 1 989, in Elkhorn east of Clancy. northeast of Lewistown..