Body of Drowning Victim Recovered from the Lake

Divers have recovered the body of a  Camdenton man who was missing and presumed drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks.  51-year old Joe Bartholomew had last been seen shortly before noon Sunday,  fishing from a private dock near the 13.5 mile marker on the Big Niangua Arm.  His body was found floating on the water just after 2:30 this afternoon.  It’s the third drowning on the Lake of the Ozarks this year; the second in less than a week .