My mother died this morning at about 7 a.m. in a hospice house in the back of Palolo Valley. The first photo was taken on Kahala Beach in late 1941. The second taken on Easter Sunday, 2012, during a visit to our home in Kaaawa. Before her recent decline, she wrote her own obituary. Here’s [...]
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I was very sorry to hear Darrow Aiona died suddenly just a few days before Christmas. Darrow was a very familiar figure in our lives, and his passing sent me digging for old photos. I came up with this batch of pictures which include a couple of Darrow. That’s Darrow, with his pipe, talking with [...]
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I spotted a vaguely familiar name in the Star-Advertiser “death notices” on Sunday, Rodney Burl Yarberry. It was short and to the point, and explained why the name was familiar. Yarberry, who died in Hilo at age 92, once served as superintendent of education. This is one of those moments that I mourn the loss [...]
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I was sorry to get the news yesterday of Chuck Frankel’s death. He was a class act. His son, David “Kimo” Frankel, sent out an email to those on Chuck’s correspondence lists. It says a lot about the man. On Saturday evening, my father experienced intense pain and called an ambulance. After some testing, the [...]
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I received a polite email this week from a distant cousin of our friend, Ann Keppel, a UH professor of education who passed away ten years ago this month. Ann’s cousin wrote: She was my cousin—distantly—as I am related to the Keppel/Pralle/Hauser clans of Western Wisconsin. I believe that my grandmother grew up with her. [...]
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Janet Scott Lindblad, 1927-2011 Janet Scott Lindblad passed peacefully June 9, at 11:06 a.m., in Vancouver, Washington. Janet was born in Bremerton, Washington, and came to Honolulu with her family in 1939. Janet’s father, George Rowland Scott, worked in the Pearl Harbor Navy yard, having received a senatorial appointment from then-Washington state Senator Warren Magnusson [...]
