DISABLED MAN MISSING MOTHER SEEKS RETURN OF SON LAST SEEN IN SAN FERNANDO.

Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer

LANCASTER - Rosetta Effinger and her family have been passing out fliers from Lancaster to Skid Row, trying to find someone who has seen her 33-year-old mentally retarded son.

Kelvin Effinger disappeared Nov. 9 after apparently taking a Metrolink train to visit people at a San Fernando day program for the handicapped.

Kelvin showed up the next day at the San Fernando center, which he attended before moving with his mother to Lancaster some five months ago, but by the time his mother arrived to get him he was gone again.

``It's so scary. I don't know if he's alive or dead,'' Rosetta Effinger said. ``He's so friendly he might have got into a car with someone and gone to another area.''

Kelvin is described as African-American with a dark complexion, 6 feet tall and 230 pounds. He left home wearing a blue sweat shirt, gray jeans, a gray jacket and a baseball cap.

Kelvin was last seen walking near McClay Avenue and Truman Street in San Fernando, she said. He needs medication for heart disease and high blood pressure.

Rosetta Effinger said her son had talked about wanting to see his friends from the center before he disappeared. He vanished after eating dinner at home Nov. 9, and she believes he took a train to San Fernando. She got a call the next day that he was at the center, but he left before she arrived.

Rosetta Effinger said she and relatives have handed out fliers and checked parks from the Antelope Valley to Los Angeles. Her son liked to spend his time in parks, she said.

Anyone with information on the missing man can contact his mother at [phone].

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