BELLEVUE, WI (WTAQ) – It leaves a hole in their hearts they deal with everyday.
But family and friends of the missing gathered in Brown County Saturday to remember their loved ones, support each other…and bring awareness to their cases.
Marsha Loritz is the one of the organizers of the 3rd Missing Persons event.
Tuesday marks 4 years since her mother, Victoria Prokopovitz, went missing from her Pittsfield home.
“Evereyday is a struggle and you try and hold on to hope”
But that’s not easy as the years roll by.
“So much time has gone by and I think I worry about will I forget her voice ? I don’t want to forget anything about her”
Lori Ahnert has been waiting for news of her niece, Amber Wilde, for 18 years.
“It’s frustrating now of course that we don’t know where she is, don’t know what happened to her. That’s all we want to know”
Jenna Wood is Amber’s aunt. She says it’s a roller-coaster everyday.
“Every news that a body has been found, or that human remains have been found, that definitely puts you on this roller-coaster that maybe it’s Amber”
A balloon release, with names of each of Wisconsin’s 178 missing persons, concluded a ceremony no one wants to be part of next year.
Governor Scott Walker has declared April to be Missing Persons Awareness Month.
