A Pike County man has been missing for a week without making any contact with friends or family, and West Virginia State Police say they have few leads to his whereabouts.

William Henry Blankenship, 29, of Canada, was last seen Friday, Feb. 12, at the Williamson Campus of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College in West Williamson.

Blankenships’ mother, Sandra Blankenship, told the Daily News her son and his fianceé, Whitney Bostic, drove to the college, where they both are students, in Bostic’s car. At 5 p.m., he text messenged her say he would be leaving it for her to drive home. Blankenship said his cousin would drive him home.

Blankenship did not have class that day, and Bostic went into the building, and hasn’t seen Blankenship since.

Bostic’s car was left on the college parking lot, but Blankenship’s cousin said he did not see him, and had no idea where he was. Sandra Blankenship said Bostic and Blankenship had not been arguing, in fact the couple is scheduled to be married April 10.

Blankenship’s cell phone has not been used since he disappeared.

Blankenship’s mother said her son had recently returned to the area after living in Georgetown, Ky., for two years. He had stayed with his mother in Burnwell until recently, when he had been staying with at Bostic’s home in Canada.

Mrs. Blankenship is concerned as her son suffers from high blood pressure and needs medication.

She said that although it had been a week since she had seen her son, she spoke to him almost every day before he vanished.

“He has never done anything like this before,” Sandra said. “We can’t figure out where he could be.”

She said in fact when he lived in Georgetown, he would even call her on his lunch period at the Toyota plant, where he was a line supervisor.

“We have searched the riverbanks,” Mrs. Blankenship said. “We have called the hospitals. We have called the jails. We have a large family and we have called everyone of them.

“We just want to know he is safe,” she continued. “He is a grown man, if he wanted to leave that is up to him. If that is the case, I want him to call and say he is OK.”

She said he has vanished to the extend the he did not even call his twin children, with whom he maintains a close relationship,in Georgetown on their birthday — Feb. 14, Valentines Day. Mrs. Blankenship when she called them that day looking for her son, she was told he had not called and the children had been waiting for “Daddums” to call them.

His daughter, 9, has even called and left voice mail messages on his phone but still no response, Mrs. Blankenship added,

“He has had some problems with drinking,” she said. “But he had not been drinking lately. He was going to church. He was going to college. He was trying to turn his life around.

“Am I worried?” she said. “Yes, I am.”

William Blankenship is 6”1’ tall, weighs 211 pounds and has short brown hair and blue eyes. When he was last seen, he was wearing a white Nike shirt with black trim, a grey hoodie, blue jeans, a white ball cap and grey Puma shoes. Other identifying marks include a tattoo of wings on his back.

Sgt. Dotson said police do not know if there was foul play involved in Blankenship’s disappearance. If you have any information about the Blankenship, call 304 235-6000.