Police and firefighters searched throughout the day yesterday for a 58-year-old woman last seen on Thanksgiving in Hau'ula, and will decide this morning whether to continue the search.

Barbara Whaley, 58, recently arrived in Hawai'i from Oregon, said officer Phil Camero of the department's missing person unit.

She was staying with a family in Hau'ula.

At about 10 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, she said she was going for a walk, Camero said.

About 45 minutes later she used her cell phone to call the house and said she was on the Hau'ula Loop Trail and was going to take a nap beneath a tree.

She hasn't been heard from since.

Police and firefighters searched on land and by air Friday afternoon and throughout the day yesterday, despite rainy weather.

Some pills of a type of medication that Whaley uses were found along the trail, Camero said.

Authorities are asking that the public keep watch for a 58-year-old woman with short gray hair and brown eyes.

Whaley, who has a bad knee and suffers from a heart ailment, diabetes and other disorders, is 5- feet-1 and about 180 pounds.

She was last seen wearing a peach-colored T-shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers. She was carrying a black backpack and black leather purse.

Anyone with information is asked to call Camero at 584-4444, CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cell phone.

Reach Karen Blakeman at kblakeman@honoluluadvertiser.com.