OVID — This morning marks nearly four days since Larry D. Tucker walked away from the Addison Place assisted-living facility in New Castle.

When last seen about 8:45 p.m. Sunday the 74-year-old former Anderson man had received his evening medication and was contentedly filling in an adult coloring book, his family says.

As best Addison Place staff can figure, according to Tucker’s daughter, Lanna Lawson, someone came in or went out and Tucker slipped away. The last time Addison Place’s entry door opened was 9:10 p.m.

Lawson, her husband, Joe, and sister, Helen Weeks, have spent most of the past several days canvassing New Castle, Rushville, and Ovid handing out fliers, driving country roads, hoping someone has seen him. “No one’s seen him, but we’re going to keep putting fliers out,” said Lawson.

At this point without his medication for so long, Weeks said, Tucker would likely appear to be agitated, angry and perhaps paranoid and mistrustful.

“I’m hoping and praying he’s OK,” she added. “There are so many different emotions going through my mind.”

The women described their father as a strong-willed man who loved walking. Up until a month ago, in fact, he was allowed to go walking in the area around the nursing home, they said.

In addition to searching Rushville, New Castle and southern Madison Country, police have been keeping an eye on two trailers the family owns and Tucker frequently visited near Madison on the Ohio River and in Friendship. So far, there’s no indication Tucker has shown up in either place.

The family is also receiving assistance from the Indiana National Guard, which is conducting training in the New Castle. The guard is using its helicopters to overfly area cornfields.

On Monday, Indiana State Police issued a Silver Alert for Tucker, who was born in Anderson and worked 33 years for Delco Remy. Tucker and his wife, Patty, have been married for 46 years. They lived together near Ovid until he was moved to the Addison Place assisted-living facility.

He is described as white male, 6 feet tall, 185 pounds with short gray hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a black Army baseball-style cap, green plaid shirt, black Velcro tennis shoes and jeans.

He was taking medication to help control his Alzheimer’s disease, but the family does not believe he has medicine with him. Without the medicine, Tucker can become irritable and angry, Lawson said.

On Wednesday, Lawson said the family planned to go back to New Castle to post more fliers and talk with people who might have seen her father.

“We put fliers around New Castle, Anderson and places that he would have gone to. We’ve contacted everyone we thought he might try to contact,” Lawson said.

Earlier in the week, New Castle police used bloodhounds to follow a scent but lost the trail about two miles from the nursing facility.

The family followed the same route until it led to a truck stop along Interstate 70, Lawson said.

Anyone with information on Tucker’s whereabouts is asked to contact the New Castle Police Department at 765-529-4890.

On Wednesday, New Castle Deputy Police Chief Mark Stacy said his department had received reports of a man matching Tucker’s description in Chesterfield and New Castle, but the sightings were unconfirmed and later dismissed.

Tucker walked out of the nursing home a few months ago. He told a passer-by that he was lost, and he was returned to the facility, his daughter said.