The body of a Blanco woman missing for nearly 10 years was found July 3 by a person walking in the area, according to the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office.
Sharron Holcomb was 64 years old when she disappeared Nov. 18, 2014. She was last seen at 1 p.m. that day, driving away from her Farmington-based business Holcomb Oil and Gas Co. Her car was later found at the family home in Bloomfield, but she was not home.
The body was discovered “near the 77 mile marker on Highway 64,” San Juan County Sheriff’s Captain Kevin Burns said. “She was wearing the same clothes that she was reported last seen in,” which were reported to be “brown corduroy pants and a brown turtle neck.”
The remains were sent to the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, and Burns said, “through normal processes, through dental records, the body was identified positively as Sharron Holcomb.”
Burns added the Sheriff’s Office has “not received the report back on the findings,” which would include a possible cause of death in the case.
Holcomb’s husband, William “Jeff” Holcomb, reported her missing in 2014 and reportedly told sheriff’s investigators that Sharron “walked from the home voluntarily in a distressed mental state,” according to “what we were advised at the time,” Burns said.
A year after Holcomb disappeared, Vectra Bank sued Holcomb Oil and Gas Co. for an unpaid loan of $712,233.
The lawsuit filed on Nov. 25, 2015, named Sharron Holcomb, and William “Jeff” Holcomb, and Holcomb Oil and Gas Co. as defendants.
The 11th Judicial District Court ruled in favor of Vectra Bank on Sept. 27, 2017, and ordered the Holcombs to pay the loan and the bank’s attorney fees and court costs, court records state.
The next day, Sept. 28, 2017, William “Jeff” Holcomb filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in United States Bankruptcy Court, District of New Mexico, according to court records.
Then, on May 31, 2022, William “Jeff” Holcomb filed an application for informal probate of Sharron Holcomb’s will, stating in court documents that she died Nov. 18, 2019, at the age of 69, according to court records.
He asked to be appointed “the personal representative of the estate,” which he was granted on June 29, 2022.
Now that Sharron Holcomb has been found, Burns said the missing person part of the case has been closed “but the investigation will be ongoing until we determine the cause and matter of death.”
