JUNCTION CITY–The body of a Salina man who drowned at Milford Lake last Sunday has been recovered.

Tony Wolf, Geary County Sheriff, identified the drowning victim as Stephen B. Edwards, 65, Salina.

Wolf said authorities received a 911 call about 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. “That a fisherman had located the body.  We responded and we recovered the body just right about five o’clock.”

The sheriff reported the victim’s body had come to the surface in the Lake right in a cove in the West Rollings area where authorities had been searching.

Wolf had reported earlier that Edwards drowned Sunday morning after falling off of a pontoon boat when he went for a fishing rod that was going overboard. Edwards fell off the boat, and never resurfaced.

The drowning occurred about 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Since then Wolf estimated 15 to 20 personnel from multiple agencies and departments participated in the search. In the last two days that number had been scaled back to about eight people. The  Geary County Sheriff’s Department,  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Junction City Fire / EMS,  Geary County Emergency Management, and the Shawnee Mission dive team all participated in the search.