Ambrocia B. Bayaca,79, of Waipahu died March 15 in St. Francis-West Hospital. Born in the Philippines, she is survived by husband Flaviano S.; sons Leonard B. and Carlito B.; daughters Ida B. Bayaca, Alicia B. Martinez and Elvie B. Tungpalan; brothers Juanito, Julian and Ananias; sisters Lorenciana and Matilde Caranzo and Filipina Diampoc; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Wake services: 7 p.m. Monday at Honolulu Central Seventh Day Adventist Church, 2313 Nuuanu Ave. Call from 6 to 9 p.m. Services: 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Oliver K. Bright,80, of Aiea, a retired crane operator at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, died last Friday at home. He is survived by wife Rachel P.; sons John and Clifford Kahoohanohano and Charlie and Oliver Bright Jr.; daughters Nancy Barraclough, Emily Arnold, Hattie Perkins, Vicklynn Gomes and Ana Kamaka; 20 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Services: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Elizabeth Church, 99-312 Moanalua Road. Call from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Burial: 10 a.m. next Friday at Maui Memorial Park. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Anthony De Gama Jr., also known as Tony or The Bug Man,82, of Lahaina, a retired power plant operator crew chief at Pioneer Mill Co., died Tuesday in Maui Memorial Hospital. Born in Puukolii, Maui, he is survived by wife Bessie; sons Roy and Alton; daughters Merle Medeiros and Jean Bermudez; brother William Bill; sisters Helen Rabisa, Irene Otto, Patricia Fernandez and Mildred Fernandez; 16 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren. Mass: 7 p.m. Monday at Maria Lanakila Church. Call from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Call after 9:30 a.m. Burial: Maui Memorial Park.
Mary A. Loggins Fouche,69, of Waianae, a retired nurse with Kuakini Hospital, died March 22 in Honolulu. Born in Ewa Beach, she is survived by daughter Jamie Calarruda; sons Guy Daniels and Darrell and John Whaley; sister Anita Kalua; brother John Loggins; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Private services.
Jasmine A.N.B. Hao,infant daughter of Surreney Ann H. Berman and Jack K. Hao III, died March 21 in Kona Community Hospital. She is also survived by grandparents Kona and Ulalia K. Berman and Melvin and Andrew Calipano; great-grandparents Harry Yonemura, Josephine U.I. Kaai and Helene K.C. Berman; and hanai sisters Lia Ann K. Kaai and Sheldan N. Berman. Memorial Mass: 9:30 a.m. Monday at St. Michael's Catholic Church. Call after 8 a.m. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Vivian E. Harrison,79, is survived by sister M. Margaret Lekivetz. Incorrect information for an obituary published yesterday provided by the mortuary.
Alfred K. Red Kahananui,88, of Kona, Hawaii, a self-employed diversified taro farmer, died Tuesday in St. Francis Hospital. Born in Kona, he is survived by sons Samuel, Joseph, Alfred K. Jr. and Benjamin; daughters Eliza Morrow and Hattie Kahananui; 21 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. tomorrow at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 91-1154 North Road, Ewa Beach Ward. Call after 8:30 a.m. Call after 5:30 p.m. Monday at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Keei Ward No. 1. Burial: noon Tuesday at Kona Memorial Park. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Lemuel R. Lemmy Legros,89, of Honolulu, a retired Hawaiian Electric Co. employee, died last Friday in Honolulu. He is survived by sister Eliza Harbottle and a granddaughter. Private services.
Allan Los Banos,77, of Honolulu, a retired colonel from the U.S. Army, died Monday in Honolulu. He also worked for the city Motor Vehicle Department. Born in Honolulu, he is survived by wife Aurora; sons Allan Jr., Michael and Tim; daughters Camelia Los Banos and Maria Martinez; brothers Bernard, Alfred and Domingo Los Banos and Manuel Emiliano; and sisters Beatrice Ranis, Conchita Los Banos and Barbara Kaneakua. Services: 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mystical Rose Chapel in St. Louis. Call from 6 to 9 p.m. Mass: 9 a.m. Wednesday at St. Theresa's Catholic Church. Inurnment: National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Toshitaka Mihara,73, president and owner of Mihara Transfer Inc., died Sunday in Life Care Center. He was also a World War II veteran. Born in Papaikou, Hawaii, he is survived by daughters Laurie Oshiro, Elise Mihara-Nakamura and Thalia Romero; brothers Kenneth, Takkaichi and Yoshio; sisters Chiyoko Takahashi, Leatrice Kishii, Sumie Yoshida and Tsuneno Suenishi; and five grandchildren. Services over ashes: 5 p.m. tomorrow at Hilo Hooganji Mission, 457 Manono St. Call after 4 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
Mildred H. Miyasato Oshiro,80, of Honolulu is survived by stepchildren Dennis Oshiro and Aileen Gilliland and two stepgrandchildren. Additional information for an obituary published Tuesday provided by the mortuary.
Dr. Khiem M. Nguyen,33, of Honolulu died Tuesday in Queen's Hospital. Born in Saigon, he is survived by father Can Dinh; sisters Dan Khanh Nguyen-Le, Nga Tuyet and Trang Allison; and brothers Khue and Hai Minh. Services: 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Borthwick Mortuary. Private burial. Donations suggested to charity.
Arthur K. Niino,86, of Honolulu, a retired federal translator, died Sunday at home. Born in Waialua, he is survived by wife Yoshiko, son Walter, daughter Jane Lee and three grandchildren. Memorial services: 5 p.m. Tuesday at Honolulu Bible Church.
Harry H. Odo,83, of Honolulu, a retired customs service officer for Bureau of Customs, died March 21 in Maunalani Nursing Center. Born in Pakala, Kauai, he is survived by wife Betty K.; son Terence K.; brothers Masaru, Irving and Sadao; sisters Elizabeth Sakamoto and Florence Chung; and four grandchildren. Private services.
Nina M. Parker,58, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., formerly of Honolulu died Wednesday in University Hospital in Tucson, Ariz. Born in Badin, N.C., she is survived by sister Frances Thuma and brother Fred Brown. Services on the mainland. No flowers. Donations suggested to charity.
Richard N. Tamura,88, of Honolulu, a retired state maintenance foreman, died Sunday. Born in Waimanalo, he is survived by wife Christine; daughters Constance Connie Bettencourt, Shirley Olson and Diane Gabriel Dopp; sisters Katherine Yukino Matsumoto and Jane Sueno Matsunaga; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Wake services: 6 p.m. Monday at Diamond Head Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Mass: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Patrick's Church. Call after 10 a.m. Burial: Hawaiian Memorial Park.
Coke M. Tinsley,69, of Honolulu, a retiree, died Tuesday in Honolulu. Born in Spartenburg, S.C., he is survived by sisters Julia Cariddo and Shirley Phillips. Private services.
Dylan K. Uyehara,infant son of Leslie F. and Rodney M., died Tuesday in Honolulu. He is also survived by grandparents Ted and Judith Uyehara, Jim and Lynn Fox and Johnnie Ruth and Drew Hollywood; and great-grandparent Shizue Tokuda. Services: 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Call after 1 p.m. Burial: Hawaiian Memorial Park.
Cosmos F. Vegas,81, of Kailua, a retired heavy equipment operator from Hickam Air Force Base, died March 25 in Kailua. Born in Lawai, Kauai, he is survived by daughters Audrey A. Camara and Roxanne L. Baptiste; stepchildren Barbara J., Ronald E. and Lawrence Leroy; brother Gilbert; sisters Olympia Boreliz, Virginia Rodrigues, Pauline Valente and Adela Rivera; 12 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Services: 10:15 a.m. Thursday at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: Hawaiian Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Gwendolyn L. Williams,47, of Kaneohe died Sunday in Kaneohe. Born in Honolulu, she is survived by daughter Zaneta, parents Gwen and John Kaonohi, sisters Bernadette Lono and Alexis Lono-Ortiz, and grandfather Lawrence Joseph. Services: 10:45 a.m Tuesday at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: Valley of the Temples. Aloha attire.
Rose S. Yamada,82, of Honolulu, a retired court reporter for the U.S. attorney's office, died Tuesday. Born in Hono lulu, she is survived by husband George; daughter Ardath Akutagawa; brothers Kishichiro, Harry and Hiroki Hirata; and two grandchildren. Memorial services: 6 p.m. Monday at Nuuanu Mortuary.
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Graenum Berger, an American credited with helping relocate tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, died Wednesday at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was 90.
Berger, a social worker who worked for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, founded the American Association for Ethiopian Jews more than 25 years ago.
In the 1960s Berger witnessed bigotry towards Ethiopian Jews, or Falashas, who lived in what he termed the most extreme poverty in the world. He sought to make American Jews aware of the problems faced by what has been called Ethiopia's Jewish tribe.
He lectured about the Falashas to American audiences, and was helped in his cause by the Israeli rabbinate's 1975 decision to legally recognize the Falashas as Jews.
The association lobbied Congress and Jewish groups to help the Falashas, and Berger called publicly for Israeli action. Large-scale airlifts were eventually organized by Israel in 1984 and 1985, and again in 1991.
The end result of Berger's efforts was the establishment of a 50,000 member Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel by 1993, and the virtual removal of all Jews from Ethiopia.
Morton S. Bryer, an infectious disease expert and developer of antibiotics, died March 20. He was 82.
In World War II, Bryer was a captain and battalion surgeon in the Seventh Armored Division in Europe, and he received a Bronze Star and a Silver Star.
After the war, Bryer returned to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, where he and a team of researchers developed Aureomycin, tetracycline, polymyxin agents and other antibiotics.
Bryer was a member of the staff at Mount Sinai Hospital from 1952 until he retired in 1988 and moved to Chatham, Mass. He also was once a police surgeon for the New York City Police Department.
Robert Flint Chandler Jr., a retired agronomist with the Rockefeller Foundation and a leader in the fight against hunger in Asia, died on March 23 at Waterman Hospital in Eustis, Fla. He was 91 and lived in nearby Mount Dora.
Chandler joined the foundation staff in 1954 and soon afterward received worldwide recognition as a field commander in the Green Revolution that helped to feed populations in poor countries.
That agricultural initiative led to the development of the first high-yield grains and earned Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, a plant breeder and head of the celebrated Mexican wheat team, the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Chandler was posted to the Philippines to take charge of a similar project there.
From 1959 to 1972, he directed the new International Rice Research Institute in Manila, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. The institute developed more than two dozen varieties of rice and devised methods for farmers to grow them. The objective was richer harvests to keep up with population growth, and its success had rice-exporting countries like Thailand concerned about a possible glut of the rice market.
Chandler moved on to Taiwan, where he led the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center until 1975. Later he was an international consultant and wrote two books to add to the numerous articles he published, Rice in the Tropics: A Guide to National Development (Westview, 1979) and An Adventure in Applied Science: The Early History of the International Rice Research Institute, published by the institute in 1982.
Chandler was decorated by the governments of the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Kenya and received the World Food Prize in 1988 and the Presidential End Hunger Award in 1986. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Howell T. Conant Sr., who was the unofficial palace photographer for Princess Grace of Monaco for nearly three decades, died March 11 in Arizona. He was 83.
In 1955, Conant was hired by Photoplay magazine to shoot a cover photo of Hollywood actress Grace Kelly. She liked his modest style, and after she married Monaco's Prince Rainier III a year later, Conant spent the next 26 years as the palace's unofficial photographer.
In 1992, he published his photographs of the princess in a book called Grace.
Conant had been a photographer for Adm. Chester Nimitz during World War II. He later became a fashion photographer for Life, Look and Paris Match.
it Roy M. Fisher, former dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a former editor in chief of the old Chicago Daily News, died Thursday. He was 80.
He led the paper during the turbulent era of the civil rights movement, the 1968 Democratic Convention and the Chicago Seven trial. He also brought national attention to the Daily News by giving columnist Mike Royko prominence.
Fisher left the Daily News in 1971 to become journalism dean at the University of Missouri's main campus in Columbia, a job he held until 1983.
He moved to Washington to run the university's graduate reporting program, retired in 1989 and moved back to the Chicago area with his wife, Anne.
Harold Greenwald, a psychotherapist whose doctoral dissertation on the psychology of prostitutes evolved into a best-selling 1958 book, The Call Girl, and a Hollywood movie, Girl of the Night, died today at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 88.
Though Greenwald was best known by the general public for his studies of prostitutes, his reputation among psychologists stemmed largely from his development of direct decision therapy, an offshoot of rational emotive behavior therapy.
What he founded was the opposite of psychoanalysis, which is what he started in, said Albert Ellis, the Manhattan psychologist who developed rational emotive behavior therapy.
Greenwald wrote numerous books during his career, including Great Cases in Psychoanalysis (1969), Emotional Maturity in Love and Marriage, with Lucy Freeman (1961), The Sex-Life Letters, with his wife, Ruth Greenwald, (1972), Active Psychotherapy (1974), Direct Decision Therapy (1974) and The Happy Person (1984).
In 1958, Greenwald became famous upon the publication of his first book, The Call Girl: A Social and Analytic Study (Ballentine), which began as his doctoral dissertation and was later reissued as The Elegant Prostitute. The book sold more than 1 million copies and was translated into seven languages. In 1960, the book was also the basis for the film, Girl of the Night, starring Anne Francis and Lloyd Nolan.
Sheldon E. Kopp, a psychologist and author best known for his 1972 book If You Meet a Buddha on the Road, Kill Him, died of cardiac arrhythmia and pneumonia Monday. He was 70.
Kopp was the author of 17 books, many of them written as guides to help readers discover importance in their own existence.
If You Meet a Buddha on the Road, Kill Him examined the struggle to find meaning in oneself while relying less on spiritual teachers.
His other books include The Hanged Man (1974), The Hidden Meanings (1975), This Side of Tragedy (1977) and An End to Innocence (1978).
Ellen Hall Langer, a Hollywood starlet of the 1940s, died March 24. She was 75.
Born in Los Angeles to parents who were in the film industry, she appeared in All Quiet on the Western Front at age 7. She later made her debut as a Goldwyn girl in Up in Arms with Danny Kaye.
Her lead debut was in 1943 in Outlaws of Stampede Pass with Johnny Mack Brown. Langer held a number of parts in movies and musicals with the stars of her time, including Bob Hope, Bela Lugosi and Hopalong Cassidy.
Gil Perkins, an actor-stuntman on TV shows such as Perry Mason, Here's Lucy and Wagon Train and co-founder of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, died Sunday in California. He was 91.
Perkins was a stunt double for Spencer Tracy, Yul Brenner and Gene Hackman. In 1960, he co-founded the Stuntmen's Association, which got stunt workers recognized as entertainers deserving the title of industry professionals.