SHELBY - A Cleveland County family waits for answers after their father and grandfather Randolph “Bubba” Savage disappeared more than two years ago.

“I didn’t think it would go on two years,” said Katrina Mitchell, Savage’s daughter. “He vanished.”

She and the rest of her family often look at photos to help keep her father’s memory alive. Savage was 74-years-old at the time he disappeared and was on medication for dementia.

“Just not knowing what happened is the roughest part,” said Barry Savage, Bubba’s son. “I don’t see that a person could just disappear off the face of the earth.”

Since Savage disappeared in November 2004, police have had virtually nothing to go on.

“No leads whatsoever have come in since the report has been issued,” said Detective Mike Tucker, Shelby Police Department.

The day Savage went missing, several people spotted him walking around Shelby. At the time, the fact he was walking by himself didn’t raise any concern. Bubba was known to walk around town all the time.

“The more he walked, to him, the younger he felt,” said Mitchell.

The family thinks he was on his way to Gaffney, SC where his mother just died. It was an 18-mile walk to Gaffney, but Savage had walked that far before.

The last time anyone saw him he was walking near Shelby High School.

That night helicopters, authorities and volunteers searched several miles, but they found nothing. They searched a year later with no success.

“We’d like to bring some closure to this for the family,” said Tucker.

The regret Mitchell feels surrounding her father’s illness and his disappearance is something she doesn’t want any other family to deal with.

“If I would have known what I know now, I would’ve found someone I could talk to. I would’ve been better prepared. I would’ve known exactly what to do that day,” said Mitchell.

Now the family prays for closure.

“Every day I live, whether it is good or bad, I believe in my heart God would make me strong enough to deal with it, if it was bad. I could finally go and do what I need to do with him,” she said. ”We just want him home.”

Monday Personal Safety Specialist Dan Starks takes a closer look at living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. He’ll have tips on how to keep a loved one safer Monday at 4:30p.m. and 11 p.m.