Search continues for missing Virginia man as family grows increasingly concerned: ‘Long nights and days’

SUSSEX COUNTY, Va. — The small community of Sussex County is worried about a longtime resident who has been missing for several days.
David Barnes has spent the last 48 hours searching for his 75-year-old father, Charles “Buddy” Barnes, who was last seen on Monday.
“It’s been some long nights and days,” David Barnes said. “Riding around, making calls, I’ve been down as far as Capron in Southampton County, checking waitpeople, farmers, if they’ve seen his truck.”
Buddy Barnes, who is known by just about everybody, stopped by his friend Chester Carter’s shop on Monday around 1:12 p.m. and told him he was going to Emporia.
There was supposedly a sighting of Buddy in Emporia, but nothing else.
“It doesn’t seem real to lose somebody just like that,” Carter said. “Vanish out of thin air in Stony Creek. That just don’t happen.”

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