Jim Boaz's normally gray beard was pink, his head crowned with a fuzzy hat the shape, and color, of a flamingo as he walked in the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
"My sister is a 30-year survivor" of breast cancer, his wife, Beth Boaz, 59, said.
"My aunt wasn't quite as lucky," Jim Boaz, 64, added.
The pair were among more than 30,000 people to participate in the event Sunday, which raised more than $2 million, according to Komen spokeswoman Amarilis Viera.
Besides raising money for research, the event spreads awareness of a disease that is the most common cancer in women, Beth Boaz said.
