LA UNION--- In their most comfortable shoes, hundreds took to the streets in La Union hoping to raise money for the Alzheimer's Association.
Yet no family knows the tragedy that can come from the debilitating disease more than the Olivas family.
"We're out here because it's finally hit home. We got to do something to stop this and we're just here trying to support... we don't want this to happen to anybody else," said Pam Olivas, the daughter of Miguel Olivas, one of two men with the disease to wander off and turn up dead this summer.
It was in early August when Olivas, 73, wandered off from his South Central home, not to be seen again for weeks.
He was finally found dead along railroad tracks 13 miles away from home.
"It was very hard, very devastating to find out that our dad was missing. I mean, even though he had been missing before, we were just hoping that we would find him again. That wasn't the situation for us," said Pam.
The Alzheimer's Association helped to organize the search for Miguel last month, with the help of scent-specific dogs.
So now Olivas' family is hoping to return the favor by helping to raise funds in the Memory Walk.
"We're going to be supporting it annually and as often as we can to help fund the association and then help other people, make people aware that it's out there, and it's happening to more and more people," said Pam.
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