Authorities sought public help Monday to find a 78-year-old woman with memory loss who went missing in South Gate.
Silvia Ochoa De Hernandez was last seen about 10:30 a.m. Sunday at South Gate Park, 4900 Southern Ave., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
She is Hispanic, 5 feet tall, weighs 116 pounds, and has gray hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a black sweater, blue pants and black shoes.
“Ms. De Hernandez … has memory loss and requires medication,” according to a sheriff’s department statement.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts was urged to call the sheriff’s Missing Persons Unit at 323-890-5500, South Gate police at 323-563-5436, or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS.