The husband of a woman who's been missing since Thursday asked the public yesterday for help finding his wife.

Stan Jacobs last saw Kimberly Jacobs, 47, at about 6:15 p.m. Thursday in their Waikiki apartment on Kalakaua Avenue. When he returned at 8 p.m., his wife of three years was gone.

Officer Phil Camero of the Honolulu Police Department's Missing Persons Division said after the news conference that police are interviewing friends and family. "We're hoping to generate some help and leads from this news conference," he said.

Jacobs said his wife had been distraught for real estate and health reasons.

"It wasn't one big thing but together it was a lot to deal with for her," Jacobs said. "When I got home her purse was there, her keys were there and her cell phone was there so I wasn't too concerned at first."

Yesterday's news conference was held in a boardroom of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., where Jacobs is a financial planner. He said Kimberly spent last Wednesday with her 2-year-old granddaughter, and that two of the couple's three children live within two miles of their apartment.

It wasn't until police contacted him on Friday afternoon that he started to realize something may have happened. A friend of hers from Oregon filed a missing person's report earlier that day.

"He was worried about her because she had told him on Thursday she was down and was going to go swimming," Jacobs said. "Kimberly is a powerful woman so I hadn't been concerned to that point. By their questions it made it more serious to me. I really got concerned after one more day or night had passed."

Jacobs said his wife was distraught and tired the last time he saw her. She has been known to spend time at friends' homes on the North Shore and recently returned from visiting friends overseas.

"The last time I saw her she said 'I love you' and gave me a quiet hug," Jacobs said. "She's usually very talkative but she was subdued. I thought it was just because she was tired."

Jacobs said his wife limps partly from post-polio syndrome and partly from a white-water rafting accident.

"If you look at her foot you can see it is bent in," Jacobs said. "She always wears sandals so it's not hidden."