POULSBO — Lawrence E. Zane was born on Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor propelled the United States into the Second World War. (Actor Beau Bridges and singer-songwriter Dan Hicks were born that day too).

President Roosevelt gave one of his “fireside chats” over radio that day to prepare Americans for the war ahead. The U.S. conducted its first bombing mission of the war, in Luzon, the Philippines.

Zane’s exit from the world was presumably quieter, and lonelier, than the times in which he entered it.

His body was found on what would have been his 73rd birthday. His body lie on a quiet, not-often-travelled stretch of beach between Kingston and Indianola. His shirt was gone, and he was missing a shoe.

Authorities have been unable to track down a surviving relative. That saddens Tony Stewart, Kitsap County deputy coroner, who said Zane “is under our care, he’s with us,” until he can be interred.

Not much is known about Zane. Several individuals with the name of Lawrence E. Zane pop up in Indiana in records searches. A Lawrence E. Zane served as principal chief of the Wyandotte Nation in Oklahoma from 1954-1975; could they be related?

Here’s what was known as of Dec. 18: Zane resided at Navos Mental Health and Wellness Center, Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson said.

The center, at 1210 SW 136th St., Burien, is next to Seahurst Park on Puget Sound.

Navos’ website states that the center provides a host of inpatient and outpatient mental health services, including residential and community housing, employment services and “several new and nationally recognized programs that are challenging the way mental health treatment is delivered.”

(A Lawrence E. Zane shows up in a search of King County Superior Court records under the care of a guardian from 1983 to 1994. It could not be confirmed on deadline whether that Zane is the one whose body was found on Dec. 9.)

A call on Dec. 18 to Navos was referred to Diane Browning, the company’s vice president and director of compliance. She did not return a call to her cell phone by deadline.

On Dec. 5, Navos reported Zane missing to the King County Sheriff’s Department.

Zane’s body was discovered on the beach four days later. A resident found the body around 3 p.m. and called 911. The beach is in the 21400 block of President Point Road.

It was not known how long the body had been there; the resident who found the body told deputies that he had not gone down to the beach in a couple of weeks.

“A lot of those houses are high up on a bluff, but they have trails that go down to the beach,” Wilson said.

It appeared Zane’s body was brought in with the tide, Wilson said at the time, and there were no indications at the scene of foul play.

Based on a cursory examination at the scene, personnel “guess-timate” that the body had been in the water from 24-36 hours, Wilson said. Zane had been fully clothed, “but when his body rolled onto the beach, he had lost some items. He was missing a shoe and he didn’t have a shirt on.”

Kitsap County Sheriff’s officers are still investigating.

“What were the circumstances between Dec. 5 when he was reported missing and Dec. 9 when he was found on the beach, we don’t know,” Wilson said.

Determination of cause of death and manner of death await toxicology results. Those results could take up to six weeks, Stewart said.